Refining Single Stone Effigies

 

“While some of these ideas are open to dispute and refinement (as should be the case with all of science). Most are widely accepted by geologists and archaeologists today.” – Dr. Curtis Hoffman (Pandemic Power Point Presentation:  Ceremonial Stone Landscapes).

    Curtiss writes: “Effigies: These are collections of stones – always more than two – which appear to form the shape of animals or – more rarely – humans. As noted above, they often include “serpent” walls as well as turtle effigies…all effigies are additive, in that they are all collections of stones assembled so as to form a shape.”

   In my experience, I sometimes find that the effigy may be a single stone sometimes, but of course the placement of that certain stone on another stone shows a human intention to create an effigy, have others perceive the stone as an effigy.

   Perhaps two stones is the minimum, like a statue and a pedestal:

A Bear's Head Balanced on a Boulder, with a Fire Starer Base:

 

A Deer Head Effigy on Boulder 

Probable Single Stone Turtle Effigies:

Subtractive Turtles with material removed to create the shape? 

Pipping Turtle and eggshells??

Probable Turtle on a Probable Snake Effigy

 Probable Anthropomorphic Effigy

Near the "Forward Point" of a segment of a Zigzag row of stones:

As one stone, from on point of view, a bear effigy...

..on a snake effigy...

...which, from another point of view, adding a second stone,

a turtle head,

  the bear becomes/transforms before your eyes, a probable "two stone turtle effigy:"

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