Posted on 01/20/2019 5:53:42 AM PST by SunkenCiv
...and it was worn by a man!
The suspicion is that the tiara - or diadem - was made by Denisovans who are already known to have had the technology 50,000 or so years ago to make elegant needles out of ivory and a sophisticated and beautiful stone bracelet.
The tiara maybe the oldest of its type in the world.
It appears to have had a practical use: to keep hair out of the eyes; it's size indicates it was for male, not female, use.
Another theory, although related to tiaras made 20,000 years later by people living around river Yana in Yakutia is that they could have denoted the family or tribe of ancient man, acting like a passport or identity card...
Marks on it show it had 'wear and tear' before being discarded as broken in a cave that is seen by archaeologists as one of the most significant treasure troves of early man anywhere in the world.
There were, though, no religious symbols or ornaments on the woolly mammoth tiara - made at a time when the giant species still roamed Siberia with ancient man as a predator.
The Palaeolithic tiara can be dated to between 45,000 to 50,000 years, and was worn by a man with a large head, according to researcher Alexander Fedorchenko, from Novosibirsk Institute of Archeology and Ethnography.
(Excerpt) Read more at siberiantimes.com ...
I wrote that a GOOD plastic tiara would not break.
I mean one of those ninety nine cent ones.
Not one of those cheap dime ones from Vietnam.
If I recall correctly that’s exactly what they were, ivory (not pearl). I doubt they were mammoth ivory though.
“Wouldn’t a woolly mammoth tiara be both hairy and horny?”
The former often begets the latter.
I think it depends on the weight of the brother who steps on the tiara.
No doubt someone from Gillette interpreted that.
Patton had a few words about pearl as opposed to ivory.
This sounds like more royal family squabbling.
“Jimmy stomped on my tiara!”
“Tax-chick broke my scepter!”
Meanwhile, us peons are making due with sturdy plastic tiaras made in an American tiara factory in Hoboken.
Should be okay as long as you turn the light on before you walk down the stairs.
“Did you hear that thump?”
“Nope, didn’t hear a thing.”
So I got that going for me…which is nice.
“Looks to me like that interpretation is a bit forced.”
I know.. It could be an early guitar capo.
Maybe wearing a wooly mammoth tiara was a great hangover cure.
Well, if you’re leaving your tiaras all over the place, then the rest of us have to keep an eye out,
Could have been primitive sun glasses or protective goggles.
Looks to me like that interpretation is a bit forced.
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That’s how you keep the grant money coming in. Gotta produce something of interest don’t you know. Any ‘artifact’ will do.
Was there a date of manufacture stamped on it?
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