Tango01  | 12 Feb 2013 12:40 p.m. PST |
"The star exhibit initially promised for the British Museum's "Ice Age Art" show will not be coming—but for a good reason. New pieces of Ulm's Lion Man sculpture have been discovered and it has been found to be much older than originally thought, at around 40,000 years. This makes it the world's earliest figurative sculpture. At the London exhibition, which opens on 7 February, a replica from the Ulm Museum will instead go on display.
The story of the discovery of the Lion Man goes back to August 1939, when fragments of mammoth ivory were excavated at the back of the Stadel Cave in the Swabian Alps, south-west Germany. This was a few days before the outbreak of the Second World War. When it was eventually reassembled in 1970, it was regarded as a standing bear or big cat, but with human characteristics…"
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Hope you enjoy!. Amicalement
Armand |
| 79thPA | 12 Feb 2013 12:47 p.m. PST |
I'm sure there is a Far Side cartoon in there somewhere. Maybe a shaman pitching this figurine into the trash and muttering "Sh**, I messed up again. I just can't get these legs right." |
| boy wundyr x | 12 Feb 2013 3:23 p.m. PST |
Is it compatible with 20,000 year-old figures? |
| kallman | 12 Feb 2013 4:01 p.m. PST |
Damnit! boy wundry x I almost sprayed my monitor when I read your post.  |
| Sajiro | 12 Feb 2013 4:35 p.m. PST |
Considering the level of sculpting and a lack of scale reference, it's no wonder why it's been out of print for the last 40,000 years. Any discussion of what ruleset they were using? |
| boy wundyr x | 12 Feb 2013 4:50 p.m. PST |
Just wait till GW's lawyers send a letter to the museum that they've trademarked "Lion Man". |
| BrotherSevej | 12 Feb 2013 6:20 p.m. PST |
Lion Man 40,000. Reek of Cease & Desist. |
| Privateer4hire | 12 Feb 2013 6:50 p.m. PST |
Kzin?
Kilrathi?
First attempts at a conversion? I hate mammoth ivory minis! Remember when everything was made out of wood? How easy they were to convert? |
| dwight shrute | 13 Feb 2013 4:24 a.m. PST |
It has a broken leg , is it Finecast ? |
| Company D Miniatures | 13 Feb 2013 5:20 p.m. PST |
Will they be bringing out cavalry? |
| dsfrank | 14 Feb 2013 4:21 a.m. PST |
so compared to today's Ice Age Lion Man figures we are dealing with 40,000 years of scale creep? |
| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 28 Feb 2013 1:44 p.m. PST |
Clear proof that Aslan is indeed the Son of the Emperor. |
discovers a lost dinosaur.
