microrobert
07-26-2012, 01:56 PM
Archaeologists uncover Palaeolithic ceramic art
http://cdn.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/2012/11-archaeologis.jpg
Leg and torso from the model of a four-legged animal, possibly a deer or horse.
This is one of 36 ceramic items recovered from Vela Spila, Croatia.
Evidence of a community of prehistoric artists and craftspeople who “invented” ceramics during the last Ice Age – thousands of years before pottery became commonplace – has been found in modern-day Croatia.
The finds consist of 36 fragments, most of them apparently the broken-off remnants of modelled animals, and come from a site called Vela Spila on the Adriatic coast. Archaeologists believe that they were the products of an artistic culture which sprang up in the region about 17,500 years ago. Their ceramic art flourished for about 2,500 years, but then disappeared.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-07-archaeologists-uncover-palaeolithic-ceramic-art.html#jCp (http://phys.org/news/2012-07-archaeologists-uncover-palaeolithic-ceramic-art.html#jCp)
http://cdn.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/2012/11-archaeologis.jpg
Leg and torso from the model of a four-legged animal, possibly a deer or horse.
This is one of 36 ceramic items recovered from Vela Spila, Croatia.
Evidence of a community of prehistoric artists and craftspeople who “invented” ceramics during the last Ice Age – thousands of years before pottery became commonplace – has been found in modern-day Croatia.
The finds consist of 36 fragments, most of them apparently the broken-off remnants of modelled animals, and come from a site called Vela Spila on the Adriatic coast. Archaeologists believe that they were the products of an artistic culture which sprang up in the region about 17,500 years ago. Their ceramic art flourished for about 2,500 years, but then disappeared.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-07-archaeologists-uncover-palaeolithic-ceramic-art.html#jCp (http://phys.org/news/2012-07-archaeologists-uncover-palaeolithic-ceramic-art.html#jCp)