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A 12,000-year-old obelisk with a human face was found in Karahan Tepe

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Re: A 12,000-year-old obelisk with a human face was found in Karahan Tepe

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AlotOfReading wrote: post #16
dooglius wrote: post #13

I wonder if it's possible to correct for the effects of time to see what it originally looked like

Archaeologists generally aren't that computer-savvy. I haven't seen any indications of paint residues on the pillars, but we know that many of the statues in these enclosures were also painted bright colors that would be missed by a digital reconstruction.

What pigments did they have 12 thousand years ago? Only ochre, surely? So rusty red, dirty yellow, nothing else? (Oh, soot black, too.) I'd be interested if there was anything else.

I see the boar statue is painted inside its mouth ... with red ochre.

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Post by AlotOfReading »

card_zero wrote: post #21
AlotOfReading wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Archaeologists generally aren't that computer-savvy. I haven't seen any indications of paint residues on the pillars, but we know that many of the statues in these enclosures were also painted bright colors that would be missed by a digital reconstruction.

What pigments did they have 12 thousand years ago? Only ochre, surely? So rusty red, dirty yellow, nothing else? (Oh, soot black, too.) I'd be interested if there was anything else. I see the boar statue is painted inside its mouth ... with red ochre.

The boar was painted with red inside the mouth, and black/white on the hide. Black in the ancient Near East was usually bitumen, though later groups like the Egyptians would switch to manganese dioxide. White was plaster. They also had yellow ochre.

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Post by vidarh »

j-kent wrote: post #8

Can I just say that it is fantastic that they have included so many detailed pictures of the obelisk. How many times have you visited an article about a discovery only to have no pictures in the article.

I read this comment before clicking, and half expected it to be sarcasm exactly because of how common that is

Re: A 12,000-year-old obelisk with a human face was found in Karahan Tepe

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Post by card_zero »

AlotOfReading wrote: post #23
card_zero wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What pigments did they have 12 thousand years ago? Only ochre, surely? So rusty red, dirty yellow, nothing else? (Oh, soot black, too.) I'd be interested if there was anything else. I see the boar statue is painted inside its mouth ... with red ochre.

The boar was painted with red inside the mouth, and black/white on the hide. Black in the ancient Near East was usually bitumen, though later groups like the Egyptians would switch to manganese dioxide. White was plaster. They also had yellow ochre.

The boar's arms are long and skinny and curved, and kind of loosely attached. This culture's art style had a consistent theme of noodle-arms.
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