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🪞 Le reflet du Néolithique...
Ces miroirs préhistoriques datant de 6400 av. J.-C. sont les plus anciens jamais découverts.
Fabriqués avec soin en obsidienne en Anatolie (Turquie actuelle), ils nous montrent que l’humanité se regardait déjà dans la pierre... il y a plus de 8000 ans 😮

usluck.com/507034/pagaruyung-p Pagaruyung Palace is the royal palace of the former Pagaruyung Kingdom, built in the 17th century CE and located in West Sumatra in Indonesia. The palace was built in the traditional Minangkabau Rumah Gadang vernacular architectural style [1440×2771] #Artefact #ArtefactPorn #Artefacts #Artifact #ArtifactPorn #Artifacts

usluck.com/505780/war-mask-iro War mask (iron, steel, and brass) from Türkiye or western Iran, made by an unknown craftsman between 1450 and 1500. 20 cm (7.8 in) high. Now in the Khalili Collections, United Kingdom. Photo credit: Khalili Collections. [540×686] #Artefact #ArtefactPorn #Artefacts #Artifact #ArtifactPorn #Artifacts

usluck.com/481911/the-vore-buf The Vore Buffalo Jump, in Wyoming, is a sinkhole that was used between 1500-1800 CE by Native American hunters, and which was deep enough to cause the crippling or death of bison which were stampeded into it. The site is estimated to contain the remains of 20,000 buffalo [2128×1582] #Artefact #ArtefactPorn #Artefacts #Artifact #ArtifactPorn #Artifacts

usluck.com/464633/the-torslund The Torslunda plaques, discovered in 1870 in the Torslunda parish on the Swedish island Öland, are bronze matrices intended to produce thin bronze plates intended to adorn rich helmets of the sort found at Vendel, Valsgärde, and Sutton Hoo. 6th–8th century CE, Swedish History Museum [1024×1024] #Artefact #ArtefactPorn #Artefacts #Artifact #ArtifactPorn #Artifacts

usluck.com/457226/pennannular- Pennannular brooch with beast-shaped terminals, part of the St Ninian’s Isle Treasure, discovered in the late 1950s on an island in the Shetlands. From the latter part of the 8th century. National Museum of Scotland. [2048×1427] #Artefact #ArtefactPorn #Artefacts #Artifact #ArtifactPorn #Artifacts