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8/21/2009
3:54:08 pm EDT
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Scotland's 'Earliest Face' Found
Author: BBC News Source: BBC News
Title: SCOTLAND'S 'EARLIEST FACE' FOUND
A carving believed to be Scotland's earlist human face, dating back thousands of years, has been found on the Orkney island of Westray.
The small Neolithic sandstone human figurine is believed to be up to 5,000 years old.
Experts have described the find as one of "astonishing rarity".
Archaeologists made the discovery - measuring just 3.5cm by 3cm - at Historic Scotland's excavation at the Links of Noltland.
It is believed to be the only Neolithic carving of a human form to have been discovered in Scotland - with only two others said to have been found elsewhere in the UK.
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Grumpy Raven (Eagle, Colorado) - Email Me
rare and exciting, but archeologists have found carvings in other parts of Europe that are around 40,000 years old. (If this is from 3000 B.C., monumental architecture was already being built in the near east & Egypt) . I'll bet the people who did this stone carving mostly used wood & bone for carving & it's all gone.
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