16 giug 1500 anni a. C. - Ambum Stone

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greywacke
Papua New Guinea
time and effort put in to create suggests importance/value
stylized, representation of extinct animal??
ritual object, supernatural powers, buried in sacred land, appease god(s)
removed by christian missionaries and resides in an australian museum, this has created controversy> does it belong to them?

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