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So this image which is obviously of a bull I have edited 9 ways till Sunday and is another one to add to my surrealism album and one i will most probably have hanging on my wall at some point, for some reason it appeals to me.
Series: Provalishche
From a cycle: The Average strip
"Артефакты"
серия: Провалище
близ деревни Ланьшино, Серпуховский район, Московская область, Россия
июль 2010
из цикла: Срединная полоса
"Cultural artifact or artefact is a term used in the social sciences, particularly anthropology, ethnology, and sociology for anything created by humans which gives information about the culture of its creator and users." Kond, the old district of Yerevan. Armenia, 2006
Photo taken in the summer of 1977. Fill was taken from small areas of the excavation unit and screened (in case any artifacts were missed in place --- almost all were measured in their original position). The fill (soil) was then bagged separately according to location and depth and put through a flotation device (below) which allowed organic materials to go to the surface where they were skimmed off, filtered according to size, and dried for identification. The remaining fill was let out of the bottom through another series of filters so that any tiny artifacts (like waste flakes from the manufacture of stone tools) could be recovered and sorted by size. After all the stone tools and flakes were catalogued, all the artifacts from the entire site were matched up where possible to others (like a very complicated jigsaw puzzle). This way it was possible to tell which parts of the site were probably being used at a particular point in time and to reconstruct activity like making a stone tool in one part of the site and using it and re-sharpening it in another.
Includes prose:
Artifacts of past insecurities rise up from the ruins of a shattered heart. O, delusion of harmony, mirage of unity- you have uncovered the remnants of broken wishes. Stand all together, cold and alone, chatter about what should have been while sight-seers walk by wagging their heads at what could have been. You are for a time past and not tomorrow.
"He has us looking for an entrance to a cave that could contain an alien artifact that the Doctor is trying to track down, we could really do with your help Tabi" came Annabelle's voice.
"Alright, I will head out now, text me our co-ordinates and I will come and find you two, see ya soon!"
So I was out fossil hunting last weekend when I happened upon something....strange.
I was digging around the wash of a small waterfall and stream when I happened upon this mask. I figured it would be a great time to look for fossils, since a heavy rain the night before would have washed away a lot of the sediment. Its two eyes were peeking out from the muddy bank. It was very creepy looking.
So I picked it up and put it into my backpack, and forgot about it until today.
I have no idea what to make of it. Maybe someone tossed an old art project down there. Maybe someone stole it off a statue. I really have no idea.
It looks like it's been down there for a while. The forehead design, mouth and one of the ear/strap holes have been sealed shut by thinly melted copper, and sand concretions There are still some small holes in them. There's quite a bit of sand concretions on the face of the mask too.
I took it to work and hit it with our XRF instrument, and it's made of 98% copper about 1.5% Silicon and about .7 Manganese. Yeah, it doesn't add up, but if you've used an XRF, you know it's touchy.
Anyone have any idea what this is?
Update
From one of the curators at the Science Museum of Minnesota:
I did finally have the time to give your mask a good examination with a colleague of mine.
The mask is certainly a modern creation. As you had expected, perhaps someone's art project. Still, what an interesting find while out collecting fossils!
Here are my thoughts and speculations:
We took a series of XRF readings. The material is mostly copper. Between 93 and 98%. There is some silver in the mix, suggesting that it may include some native copper. However, there is also a higher than usual Zn content for native copper. Usually there is not Zn in native copper from the upper Midwest. There are also percentages of Mn and Al, which doesn't occur naturally in copper. Manganese and aluminum was not added to copper until the 20th century. Alloys that include Mn and Al were created during the war efforts to reduce corrosion. So, the mask is a cocktail of probably scrap copper and perhaps some native copper.
Stylistically, it doesn't resemble anything I've seen archaeologically from the upper Midwest. However, it is interesting that it was clearly created to look rough and old. The calcite deposits were probably added to give it a look of natural long-term corrosion. Probably lime concrete. The crystallization is spotty and undeveloped.
Technologically, the mask was definitely cast. The metal was heated beyond its melting point (over 1900F), leaving drips and bubbles. This is not consistent with aboriginal copper working practices, where copper was hammered and annealed.
I don't think the mask could have been buried in fossiliferous gravels in the ravine for very long. Examining the mask under UV light revealed some very fragile wax along one of the edges. Some of it dislodged with the slightest touch with a probe. So, that is unlikely to have survived on the mask for long, especially in an active environment like that ravine. The mask may have been left as little as a day or two before you found it.
Still, it is yet another great example of a very strange thing left behind in an odd place. Like I said, probably someone's high school or college art project. How it got in the bottom of the ravine is anyone's guess. Great conversation piece.
That rings true for what I thought. I was in that ravine literally the week before and it wasn't there then. Anyway, it's still a neat conversation piece to hang up in my shop or garage.
"N. AMERICAN ARTIFACT"
Ink on Paper, 2015
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Mural by Big Boy, seen at 1212 West Hubbard Street in the River West area of Chicago, Illinois.
Photo by James aka Urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
Edit by Teee.
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The city of Saginaw was a thriving lumber town in the 19th century and an important industrial city and manufacturing center throughout much of the 20th century. However, by the late 20th century, Saginaw's industry and its once-strong manufacturing presence declined, leading to increasing unemployment, crime, and a decrease in population. Neighboring communities, such as Saginaw Charter Township, saw subsequent population increases while the city itself is projected to return to normal population growth after the decades-long structural changes to the economy.
Currently, economic development is focused on comparative advantages in innovation, clean energy, and continued manufacturing exports. Compared to other mid-sized communities, Saginaw has a disproportionately high number of patents per employee, and more than 81 times the average US share of jobs in photovoltaic technology research and production. The city continues to have a higher proportion of manufacturing jobs in comparison to the US.
During much of the 20th century, Saginaw's economy was dominated by manufacturing related to the automotive industry; most notably, manual transmission assemblies, steering gear boxes and power steering pumps. At the height of manufacturing in the 1960s and 1970s, the city and neighboring Buena Vista Township hosted 12 General Motors plants, an Eaton Manufacturing plant where 5,000 people turned out auto parts (demolished 2008), and numerous smaller concerns.
The manufacturing presence in Saginaw declined in the latter half of the 20th century, leading to high unemployment throughout the city. As a result, the city's population diminished; from 2000 to 2010, the population of Saginaw proper decreased by nearly ten thousand people, and Michigan's state population during that time period decreased by 0.6% percent, the only U.S. state to lose population during the decade of the 2000s. In addition, Saginaw has faced increasing social problems relating to poverty as a result of its high rate of unemployment. In recent years, Saginaw's crime rate has been a major area of concern for the community as well.
Saginaw's entertainment hub can be found in the downtown area, where venues such as The Dow Event Center and the restored Temple Theatre offer live entertainment. The Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra and Saginaw Choral Society are housed in the Temple and each of these organizations perform full concert series annually at the Temple venue. The Saginaw Historical Society is also located downtown in an elaborate castle.
The Castle Museum of Saginaw County History is an important and prominent museum in downtown Saginaw. The museum is housed in a former post office which was built to resemble a castle, and pays homage to the historical French heritage of the area. With over 100,000 artifacts in their collection, the Historical Society of Saginaw County displays items from their collection as well as that of traveling exhibits.
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Museo Nacional de Antropología
The Museo Nacional de Antropología (MNA, or National Museum of Anthropology) is a national museum of Mexico. It is the most visited museum in Mexico. Located in the area between Paseo de la Reforma and Calle Mahatma Gandhi within Chapultepec Park in Mexico City, the museum contains significant archaeological and anthropological artifacts from the pre-Columbian heritage of Mexico, such as the Piedra del Sol (the "Stone of the Sun" or Aztec calendar stone) and the 16th-century Aztec statue of Xochipilli.
Got a chance to see the exhibit of Buddhist Temple artifacts curated by George and Willa Tanabe at JCCH
An extremely versatile Business Office sign in the mix at this wonderful architectural salvage store on Ravenswood.
Got a chance to see the exhibit of Buddhist Temple artifacts curated by George and Willa Tanabe at JCCH
Traces of stucco are preserved in some areas.
Found in 1903 flanking the doorway of the Roman villa in the Fondo Prisco (approximately here. For the villa, see Della Corte, "Villa rustica esplorata dal sig. cav. Carlo Rossi Filangieri nel fondo di Antonio Prisco, in contrada Civita-Giuliana," Notizie degli scavi di antichità 18 (1921), 415-423), not far outside the Porta Vesuvio. It probably originally guarded a tomb, along with a second sphinx, of which only a head is preserved.
2nd-1st c. BCE
Soprintendenza Pompei (Antiquarium di Boscoreale), inv. 25896
Photographed on display in the exhibition "Il Nilo a Pompeii: visioni d'Egitto nel mondo romano" (The Nile at Pompeii: visions of Egypt in the Roman world) at the Museo Egizio in Torino, Piemonte, Italy, March 5 to September 4 (extended to October 2), 2016.
Photographs from a Melrose High School Italian class field trip to the Pompeii exhibit at the Boston Museum of Science.
December 2011
This ring has been found in 2525 among some other coins with unknown origin. It was burried under a former town probably in the middle of the 21th century.
Some presume that it was made by somebody because of a nostalgy for the earlier years. Others say that the artist was only attracted to the metal's shiny look and neither himself did not know what was the coin for originally. It depicts a man with four hands and four legs, certainly some god or other divinity. The stars around him just confirm this theory.
According to some publications the artist made these to trade them for meat with hunter communities. However it is very unlikely because in the middle of the 21th century trade did not return yet, especially not for other than meat or vegetables.
More beautiful "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" original movie props...
Some of the treasure stolen from the Temple as it collapsed!
The Mask of Agamemnon is an artifact discovered at Mycenae in 1876 by Heinrich Schliemann.[1] The artifact is a funeral mask made in gold, and was found over the face of a body located in a burial shaft, designated Grave V, at the site "Grave Circle A, Mycenae". Schliemann believed that he had discovered the body of the legendary Greek leader Agamemnon, but modern archaeological research suggests that the mask is from 1550–1500 BC, earlier than the life of Agamemnon, as tradition regards it.
The mask is currently displayed in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
In the photo above, Sacred Heart Catholic Church salvaged the 11 piece marble crucifixion scene behind the altar from Saint Liborius Catholic Church in Saint Louis. The hanging interior light fixtures and bells from exterior tower were also salvaged from same church for use in this church. Eureka, Missouri.
This week St. Louis landscape lost Saint Bridget of Erin Catholic Church to demolition. It has been reported that some artifacts will be salvaged like stained glass windows and tower bells. See photos in comments below.
02.13.10
This a current fav. I would love to start working with slides.
More on the blog.
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