The engraving, approximately 13,000 years old, is 3 inches long from the top of the head to the tip of the tail, and 1.75 inches tall from the top of the head to the bottom of the right foreleg. Credit: Chip Clark/Smithsonian
The engraving, approximately 13,000 years old, is 3 inches long from the top of the head to the tip of the tail, and 1.75 inches tall from the top of the head to the bottom of the right foreleg. Credit: Chip Clark/Smithsonian
GGG Ping!...............
i know art was in its “infancy” and all that, but c’mon... it doesn’t even look like a wooly mammoth at all...
sheesh...
teeman
Badge,
Why did I immediately think of Jimmy Durante when I read the word “proboscidean?”
Very interesting find!
Little known is that The Order Of Animals With Trunks (Proboscideans) was the Carthaginian group upon which the Knights Templar was based. Or so I’ve heard.
It’s an engraving of a COLUMBIAN. See: http://www.tarpits.org/education/guide/flora/mammoth.html
Looks more like a Cthulu monster than a mammoth.
unidentified animal cracker
Early scrimshaw.. Clearly an elephant type critter.
It’s well done too.
So what happend to all the artists after this? This looks like a well drawn mastidon. Later American Indian art looks more like boxes with sticks for legs and antlers.