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The Acámbaro figures were uncovered by a German immigrant and hardware merchant named Waldemar Julsrud. According to Dennis Swift, a young-Earth creationist and major proponent of the figures' authenticity, Julsrud stumbled upon the figures while riding his horse and hired a local farmer to dig up the remaining figures, paying him for each figure he brought back.
It is one of the two main categories of Prehistoric art, the other being the immobile Parietal art, [1] effectively synonymous with rock art. Though the game hunted for food was a recurring subject within portable art, the over 10,000 pieces that have been discovered exhibit a great diversity in terms of scale, subject, use, date of creation ...
Anthropomorphic Iron Age wooden cult figures, sometimes called pole gods, have been found at many archaeological sites in Central and Northern Europe. They are generally interpreted as cult images , in some cases presumably depicting deities, sometimes with either a votive or an apotropaic (protective) function.
An archetypical baby-face figurine from Las Bocas.. The "baby-face" figurine is a unique marker of Olmec culture, consistently found in sites that show Olmec influence, [4] although they seem to be confined to the early Olmec period and are largely absent, for example, in La Venta.
The Strange Change Machine was a Mattel toy introduced in 1968, in which "shape memory" plastic figures of prehistoric animals and science fiction-like creatures could be reconstituted from compressed "time capsule" form, and re-compressed back into that form. The label on the box read, "A Strange Change Toy featuring The Lost World ...
Mask of la Roche-Cotard. The Mask of la Roche-Cotard, also known as the "Mousterian Protofigurine", is an artifact dated to around 75,000 years ago, [1] in the Mousterian period.
Some are clay figurines or statues, many of which archaeologists have identified as akin to fetishes or totems, and are believed to be imbued with powers that could help and protect the people who care for them. Many clay figurines have been discovered at Cucuteni–Trypillia sites, and many museums in eastern Europe host sizable collections of ...
Pilling Figurines in the CEU Prehistoric Museum. The Pilling Figurines are a set of eleven clay figurines made by the Fremont culture. They were discovered in 1950 by Clarence Pilling, a Utah rancher, under a rock overhang in a side canyon of Range Creek, Utah. [1] The figurines are believed to be around 1000 years old. The Pilling Figurines ...