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12th October 2017, 03:37 PM
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Hi Everyone,
no one an idea? Even a direction for further research might be helpful. Best regards Andreas |
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12th October 2017, 04:00 PM
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Maybe a Tiki from polynesia...
Which kind of stone is it? |
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12th October 2017, 09:01 PM
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Hmm...the squat face, nose shape and expression strike me as Meso-American. Aztec? Incan? Just a guess, mind you. Perhaps a search for mythology involving a God/Goddess carrying the 'world' on his/her head??
 Mark |
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12th October 2017, 09:33 PM
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I looked at the following:
Irish, Neolithic period Turkey, Neolithic Pre-Colombian Olmec votive axe (shape) No solid leads yet. Trick is the initial narrowing down to a geographic area. |
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13th October 2017, 11:55 AM
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statues with hats and protruding top knots immediately hints at rapa nui (easter island) but those have rather longer faces. korea oddly enough has some islands with rounder faced simple prehistoric stone statues and hats with topknots or knobs of some sort. the americas, as mentioned have a variety of cultures other than aztec, mayan. inca.
as basic as this statue is, with very limited features that can be pinned to a specific culture, you may have some difficulty finding out where it's from, possibly chemical analysis of the stone would be able to determine it's origin, tho it could have been carved after being transported and traded a fairly large distance, even over seas. trade routes even in the stone age are unbelievably complex. |
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13th October 2017, 12:00 PM
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Hi All,
thanks for your replies and help!! As figured out, the problem as even to start with geographic area, as it potentially could come from anywhere. Maybe the material gives a hint: It seems to be Gypsum... Does that help? Cheerio Andreas |
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13th October 2017, 12:37 PM
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 that makes it worse! gypsum is mined pretty much world wide, it's the major component of plaster.alabaster statues are a hard form of gypsum, used for statues from prehistory in egypt and the middle east, iran, etc. thru modern times. heck, egypt even used it for mace heads. it was also used pretty much everywhere for the same reasons, easy to carve and fairly hard. germany is one of the top 22 producers  19th among the top 22 (UK is last there)
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13th October 2017, 12:56 PM
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Hmm shit
Here are some more detailed images. Maybe that helps. Best Regards Andreas |
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