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From: "Patrick Wilken" <patrickw@CSSE.MONASH.EDU.AU>
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Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2000 10:31 AM
Subject: NEWS: 'Lump of rock' turns out to be world's first sculpture
> THE INDEPENDENT
> news | World | Middle_East
>
> 'Lump of rock' turns out to be world's first sculpture
>
> By David Keys, Archaeology Correspondent
>
> 24 September 2000
>
> A stone dismissed by experts as no more than a lump of rock has been
identified
> as the world's first sculpture and the oldest piece of figurative art ever
> seen.
>
> New scientific data suggests that early humans were producing
representations
> of life 220,000 years ago, 170,000 years earlier than previously thought.
It is
> a discovery which could revolutionise our understanding of human
development.
>
> Italian and American archaeologists used powerful microscopes to prove
that a
> figurine-like piece of volcanic stone from the Golan Heights on Israel's
border
> with Syria is in fact a primitive sculpture, deliberately chiselled and
shaped
> by human hands.
>
> The data from their examination suggests that the prehistoric object was
> intended to portray a human being, probably a woman. Yet, since its
discovery
> 15 years ago, the rock has been disregarded by most academics.
>
> The researchers; Francesco d'Errico of the French National Centre for
> Scientific Research, and April Nowall of the University of Victoria in
Canada,
> found that the early human sculptor had used some sort of flint chisel to
chip
> away at a point around 25 per cent down from the top of the lump of rock
to
> produce a neck.
>
> Full text:
>
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Middle_East/2000-09/sculpture240900.
shtml
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