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A keen-eyed archaeologist claims to have found some of the oldest artwork ever - carved faces 200,000 years old, perhaps the work of an extinct human species... |
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| Ancient Carved Faces found (October 2003) |
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The human images were found in 2001 by Pietro Gaietto on an expedition through the Borzonasca district of Italy. He claims the rock has been sculpted into faces that look in opposite directions; one is bearded with what Gaietto calls an "expressive face". If this is genuine, the artist would have been an extinct human species that died out about 150,000 years ago. Local inhabitants say that prehistoric human faces are nothing new to the region and point to a rock cliff that they believe has been sculpted. They call it the Face of Borzone. In 2001, in a pile of rubble collected for use as building material, Pietro Gaietto, from the Museum of the Origins of Man, saw something unusual in one particular head-sized rock. "If I had not spotted it, it would have been covered in concrete and put into a wall," he told BBC News Online Pietro Gaietto says it shows two heads, facing outwards and joined at the neck. One of the faces is bearded; the other is beardless... |
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