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A Hakkari stele: An armed warrior man wearing a cap (1500-1000 BCE) Bronze Age anthropomorphic funerary stelae have been found in Saudi Arabia. There are similarities to the Kurgan type in the handling of the slab-like body with incised detail, though the treatment of the head is rather more realistic. [15]
They are similar in style to other anthropomorphic stelae made across Europe between the 4th and 3rd millennium ... Media related to Statue stele di Arco at Wikimedia ...
Works of sculpture have been crafted in Mongolia since prehistoric times. Bronze Age megaliths known as deer stones depicted deer in an ornamented setting. Statues of warriors, the Kurgan stelae, were created under Turkic rule from the 6th century CE, and later started to bear inscriptions in a phonetic script, the Orkhon script, which were deciphered only in the 1980s.
The stele (plural: stelae), as it is called in an archaeological context, is one of the oldest forms of funerary art.Originally, a tombstone was the stone lid of a stone coffin, or the coffin itself, and a gravestone was the stone slab (or ledger stone) that was laid flat over a grave.
The anthropomorphic being represented on the stela has, as Lumbreras describes it, serpent, eagle and feline attributes. This would be the message of shamanic transformation to which Burger refers. [ 33 ] [ 69 ] Likewise, given that the personage is carrying a San Pedro cactus in a ceremonial plaza, this fact accentuates the argument that "the ...
The Atlantean figures in Tula are hand-carved statues made from the available stone in the area: limestone, sandstone, and volcanic rock. To carve them, sculptors would have used stone tools, such as chisels for fine sculpting, scrapers of various sizes, and stone hammers. Additional smaller and softer stones were used for smoothing.
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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 09:55, 13 October 2010: 720 × 940 (199 KB): Rama {{Information |Description={{en|Anthropomorphic stele no 1, Sion, Petit-Chasseur necropolis, Neolithic}} {{fr|Stèle anthropomorphe n°1, Sion, nécropole du Petit-Chasseur , Néolithique}} |Source=Département Préhistoire et Antiquité du Musée d'Hist