It almost defies explanation, just how clever was prehistoric man? In the House of Babel?
Prehistoric man was creating optical illusions? perhaps hundreds of thousands of years ago.
'Polyglyph's' are worked stone's with many animal, early man, bird and fish sculptures worked into them. Not only that, the head and face images worked into the stones are polymorphic ie. by turning the stone upside down the horse now looks like a cow. The Oxymoron part comes from M.C Escher's famous oxymoron artworks, as animal heads in the stones often repeat like fractals and Escher's mosaic type work and they are optical illusions. Not only that but the stone's themselves are oxymoron's, as the majority of archaeologist’s suggest early man became artistic about 40,000 year ago'. This clearly cannot be true as I have found stones in the U.K which show clear elephant's, and elephants have not lived wild in my country for at least 100,000 year's.
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There really are millions of incredibly detailed work's of art hidden in prehistoric flint and stone artifacts. Most of them lay there waiting to be found. Some works have been found and realized as worked stone but of unknown function and many recognized as tools, I believe that on closer inspection many of these stones will contain unrealized works of optical illusions and sculptured art. Elephant head sculptures are very common in paleolithic stone tools, but are unrealized or ignored by many in the professional body.
I have learned so much about prehistoric man just by looking at a few stones, Its all there, they all tell there own little story. This stone has an excellent elephant head sculpture, gorilla, a springbok, horse, wolf, predatory cat, and ram. I believe that these stones were used as communication tools. There are suggestions that early man may have not been very vocal, and these stones could convey what you had for lunch or maybe what you wanted to go and hunt, or maybe silently convey what animals are near by. They may have been used as ornaments or as a teaching aid. Or like Post-it-notes!
Ursel Benekendorff the vanguard of Prehistoric artworks, has recognized the iconography in my finds as clear and common motif's that are repeated throughout her own extensive studies. The similarities between her own stone artwork finds, and my own, simply cannot be ignored. My visual interpretations (exclusively originally) were made without knowing the existence of this figurative symbolism, and any knowledge of Ursel's amazing stone finds. In other words we independently found artifacts depicting the exact same subjects, in the exact same poses, repeatedly, and in no way exclusively to just myself's and Ursel's materials.
Work needs to be done in the British Professional Archaeology community, to educate skeptics and non- believers to the existence of these beautiful and ancient, communication tools.
These pieces will teach us more about our ancestors and there environment than any amount of gold coins.
For those of you in the wider community who wish to find similar stones I wouldn't be surprised if you found one of these artworks in your own back garden. If you have at least one good elephant head in your stone and any other animal head form in profile, you may well have your own example. Most stones will not look anything like mine, many are in pebble form or other medium, some of the basic words can be found in every stone, them being elephant, ape, horse, springbok, rabbit, boar, wolf, cow,fish, lion, bear, and wizard! all in head profile, a whole bird, whole fish, whole buffalo/bison and the humps of whales and strutting gorillas, you would have to check Ursels site for any more!. If you have flint blades and scrapers you may well already have some of these fascinating artworks, look for the ape profile in the blade. A large chip, then medium then a set of chips getting slowly smaller can signify an elephant head in your blade, these I believe are prolific but very few have noticed them.
Many thanks.
Yes, as if I had not rattled the bones of many an archaeologist already, I am now introducing a world exclusive, the discovery of incredibly detailed prehistoric nano-sculpture artworks. These small stones have all the bang of my polyglyphs but use an unknown technique to sculpture hair line ridges into flint. The stones look a little like the scaly effect caused by extreme temperature change in flint, in some areas. I have heard of a technique that uses heat to sculpt flint, Am i just making this up? Maybe the theory of a scholar in history, way back?
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Our understanding of prehistoric humanity is about to radicaly change. Our human ansestors were exactly that, not upright apes at all!, clothed and sandaled for over 100,000 years, and communicating through a complex visual language. I am privilaged to of found the worlds best examples of this million year old visual language tradition. The burden is on myself to convince the whole world of my amazing disoveries.
For the more Academic of you. Beleive me this changes everything of our understanding about prehistoric man. Im willing to produce massive amounts of evidence for my claims, even incredible homanid face sculptures. I can track this prehistoric language for maybe 1 million years, but have 1000s of pieces from approx 150,000bp that are of such high quality that im able to decode the language and its use and usage.
Thank you for your detailed comment. You are obviosly very knowlagable in the field.
Not all archeologists think that art started 40,000 years ago. There are many who think that art goes back a long way, that Neanderthals and other Hominid species were producing art way before Homo Sapiens came on the scene. Our Hominid ancestors and near relatives were not stupid. They were highly intelligent, they were using sophisticated wooden spears thousands of years before Homo Sapiens. To be able to make stone tools they would have to know about the properties of rocks. Only certain rocks make good tools.
Just because the popular media portray Neanderthals and other Hominids as stupid archaeologists know better. There might be some with old fashioned ideas but the evidence speaks for itself.
Neanderthals were making art objects. There is a suggestion that they produced some cave art before Homo Sapiens. There is evidence that they made musical instruments, scrapers and holed bird bones that look like whistles have been found. They had some sort of tally system. They used ochre for decoration, they made jewellery, buried their dead sometimes with objects including flowers, they looked after the sick and injured, there is archaeological evidence for all of this. To do these things they would have to have had a language to communicate with each other.
Even before the Neanderthals, Hominids were making tools. The first stone tools so far found go back to nearly three million years. How long wooden tools have been used can only be guessed at but wooden spears half a million years old have been found. There is evidence they were making boats and maybe even wearing clothes and shoes and using fire, also shells were used as jewellery. Again ochre has been found at sites associated with ancient homonids, it had been used. And evidence of a concern for sick and injured individuals.
Ancient man was in no way stupid and unsophisticated.
I would like to see more and with outlines better described, for the less keen-eyed; such as I.
Qutie intriguing though.
Thank you..
I will add outline drawings soon, thank you for the comment.
Would you be prepared to outline the art on a zoomed in photo of a stone or two? I admit I am having difficulty seeing a lot of it. Different colours for different shapes ala the cresswell crags pictures would help I think!
As always, the only proof positive way to recognise worked flint, is to examine the stones in person. Thank you for the invite Charles.
you have some piece interresting but it is difficult to be sure they are human work.If you come in FRANCE i will be glad to show you my stones