Dolní Vĕstonice Portrait Head: The oldest known human portrait in the world

Interestingly enough, searching for ě on the page finds the ĕ as well, but so does search for e...

It’s:

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    e   vs   e

You Slovakian? :)

Your observation, is of course, valid. Also valid is the fact that those people like STUFF!!!, lots of stuff,stuff that WE like, and that in many ways we can look.at there stuff, and know exaxtly how it was used, and we dont just give good stuff away, so it is reasonable to expect and look for the mechanisms by which they created, expressed,and honored, value. Given that "currency" is a mental construct , the known fact of things with immence value, now, litteraly bieng childs toys, to be lost in the dirt, and aluminum bieng the most valuable element, but now totaly dismissed as a possible currency, points to a need to see that distant time from the subtlest of clues. And yes its not pure science, but pure science can no longer be considered pure, and as long as we are not out on some wild truely impossible thoeretical precipice, then , hey, its a very cool possibility. The possible subject WAS wearing a fox tooth neclace, and 12000 years after this internment, they were honoring foxes and dressing in there pelts,.....as shown in statuary.... in the first know megalithic settlments not so far away,in Turkey, catyl hylueac or something its called.

Tady je ale více Čechů než jsem čekal teda :)

The OED and Cambridge dictionaries disagree. All the examples in both are of two dimensional representations or even one dimensional (written).

Of course if enough people decide to agree with the Wikipedia article then the dictionaries will have to be updated but just now i suspect that if you were to ask people to describe what the word meant that very few would mention sculpure.

But I don't think that sculpture really captures it either, it's more like a cameo.

TIL!

To me the word “portrait” makes me think “painting” as well.. I never would have guessed it refers just to what is being depicted rather than “how”. Thanks for sharing.