Late Neolithic ivory sculpture find

The site at Zaraysk, 150km south-east of Moscow, has yielded figurines and carvings on mammoth tusks. . .

The new artefacts, discovered by Hizri Amirkhanov and Sergey Lev of the Russian Academy of Sciences, include a mammoth rib inscribed with what appear to be three mammoths, a small bone engraved with a cross-hatch pattern, and two human figurines presumed to be female.

Posted by David on December 2, 2008 9:24 AM