June 28, 2009
Everything You Need to Know
Figurine. Calcite. Circa 10,000 BCE. (Mesolithic.) Found/acquired: Ain Sakhri. Small cave in the Wadi Khareitoun, south-east of Bethlehem in the Judean Desert.
A clustercommenter introduced me to this Mesolithic figurine, now held by the British Museum. I thought it might get buried in the great midden-heap of commentary, so I reckoned I’d bring it to the surface.
“Awesome and humbling,” says the commenter. I concur.
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Yes, this is very soothing.
I may disappear into it for a while.
Sheila, you and I are what a person might call Comment Bums on a Sunday Afternoon. I think this image/notion/opportunity for transcendence would be a marvellous thing to slip into for a while.
Lovely to think of this existing. And German paleontologists recently found a 35,000 year old bone flute in a cave there.
Well the bone flute was found in the same place as the Venus: Hohle Fels in Germany, and they’re both from about 35,000 years ago. This seems to be from Judea, 10,000 years ago.