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Steve Gray S
Steve Gray Oct 15, 2003 07:52:23
Replying to baza

So what you are (or he is) saying is that they faces are intentional. If there is definite evidence of carving, that would confirm a motivation to produce faces and therefore it would also be likely that naturallly occurring features would have been chosen and/or enhanced.

N nigelswift
nigelswift Oct 15, 2003 08:23:55
Replying to Steve Gray

See...
http://www.stonecentric.connectfree.co.uk/avebury.html

If those are his best ones they're not very convincing to my mind.

However, to be fair to him, he says in a RealPlayer commentary you can get to from there something about the fact you can see hundreds of faces on the Avebury stones that are typically fanciful, like you might see in a fire, but the ones he's interested in are so humanlike they couldn't be chance and they can only be seen when the sun and the shadows are just right.

(Seems like a clever trick to be able to carve hard rock so as to cast shadows that form part of the image.)