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Tiompan,
I will chalk up the "deluded" designation to a subjective and myopic style of criticism. I am afraid I just noticed your link had come up, however for some reason it will not work for me. I'll try again after I finish this post.
Circumspice,
The subject image from the last post has been difficult to photograph in various positions due to images being partially in focus due to a short focal length. It is difficult at best to see what I have described with regard to subject matter from one vantage point. The top right image shows the opposite side of the artifact from the previous post. This shows the Homo Erectus shout orientation with the man looking right. Forming the top of his head is the representation of an ape looking right. At the nape of the ape's neck is a person in profile, a bit smaller than the penny, looking left. There is a more faint profile of a person looking left that encompasses most of the left edge of the rock. The image to the left of this shows the first image rotated clockwise ninety degrees to reveal a bird looking left that goes the length of the rock. The other subject matter less the micro images reveal themselves in form in a like manner manipulating the piece.
The next image down was previously posted. It shows a man on his knees praying looking up and to the right. The upper half of this tool/sculpture is not compositionally unlike the single image from the previous post. This praying attitude has been an interesting and not uncommon subject in the art aspect of these rocks.
Please now go to the last image posted, the larger effigy bear Jack designated as Pleistocene. The images posted bottom to top so they are in reverse sequence. The next image up is the reverse side of the bear effigy and represents a frog looking right. The next image up is the frog side turned 180 degrees. The large crescent in the bottom image (bear nose to paw) was removed with one blow according to Jack. Quite skillful. This crescent in all three images can be interpreted to be the mouth agape in the Homo Erectus shout in three different compositional contexts. This would show the reversed frog image as the head of a person in profile.
Thank you for the excellent link which is quite pertinent to this discussion. I read it, I believe, a good while back. The author stays in close contact with "The Archaeology of Portable Rock Art" site and is often referenced there. His time line on his discussed "shout" sculptures is a deep one, nonetheless I find the "shout" a common compositional subject in finds from the mountain site. Are these Neandertals carrying forward the culture from a deeper past or are these representative of the presence of Homo Erectus, I just do not know. Certainly other possibilities exist with so little known of the assemblage.
The deformed jaw idea was from an article I read about European artifacts that I have been unable to find again but will look for. Apparently the shape of the jaw as shown in the previous post as the arms of the praying man is some specific disease result according to the article. That same jaw line may be seen in the top right image of this post as well.
To clarify the art issue and Jack, he is the one that first showed me the art component in these artifacts. In fact, he did so using the effigy bear in this post as I originally thought it to be a work platform (it may also be one). He is acutely aware of the art aspect of this assemblage, and if it had not been for him I may have not gotten the picture, no pun intended.
Thanks for your responses to my post and the great link. I will try to do another round of images of the artifact of the previous post to show the various subjects as clearly as possible.
