Lingjing Bird statuette (ENG) | Pacea Videos
Posted on 06/13/2020 6:27:32 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Carved from burnt bone, this miniature bird statuette is the oldest known Chinese work of art, according to an international team involving the CNRS, the universities of Bordeaux (France), Shandong (China), Bergen (Norway), and the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel). It was unearthed at Lingjing, a site in Henan Province, in an archaeological context dated to between 13,800 and 13,000 years ago. This discovery pushes back the origins of animal sculpture and representations in East Asia by more than 8,500 years (1). The stylistic and technical particularities of the figurine - it is the only known Palaeolithic sculpture representing an animal standing on a pedestal - point to an original artistic tradition, different from those known in Western Europe and Siberia. The object's exceptional state of preservation and the researchers' use of state-of-the-art analytical techniques, such as confocal microscopy and microtomography, have enabled the team to meticulously reconstruct the Palaeolithic artist's approach. This discovery is published on June 10th 2020 in the journal PLOS ONE.
Notes: (1) Previously, the oldest known sculptures were the jade and steatite animal figurines from Shangzhai, a 6000 year old site near Beijing.
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In Alaska, something similar is carved from stone (granite?) and sold to tourists as “worry birds.” They do the worrying for you. I only know this because my mother had a pair that had ruby eyes. I know about them because she got them when we lived in Alaska Territory. I have no idea what happened to them...
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Smash it. The Chinese were and still are slave owners.
They obviously worried themselves to death!.........................
Well, there ya go!! I’d love to have them, though...
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