THE HEAD OF ANIMALS IN MONOLITHIC PALEOLITHIC SCULPTURE (MENHIRS)

Museum of the Origins of Man

THE ANIMAL HEAD IN THE MONOLITHIC SCULPTURE (MENHIR) OF THE PALEOLITHIC

Fig. 7.9) Animal head sculpture (Menhir). It represents a mammal head, probably elephant or mammoth. A less vague attribution can be given if other similar findings are found.
Dimensions: about 3 m long.
Location : Carnac, Brittany, France.
Material culture: Mousterian or Upper Paleolithic
(Photo by Licia Filingeri, 1976)
In this photograph there is affinity with the more ancient sculpture (Fig. 7,2). This sculpture could be the same one (Fig.16,1) here below published, photographed in frontal view by E.Nay-Scheibler.

Fig. 16,1) Monolithic animal head sculpture (menhir).
In this photo in frontal view, E. Nay-Scheibler attributes to the sculpture the representation of a "horse head".
Dimensions: about 3 m long.
Location: between the alignments of menhir in Kermario, Carnac, Morbihan, Brittany, France.Material culture: Mousterian or Upper Paleolithic.
Photo by E. Nay-Scheibler, 1981.

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