European forager art

 
see the 'Big Idol,' a seventeen-foot-tall* totem pole
 
"the Idol is the lone survivor of a long-lost tradition of large-scale wooden forager art which once produced monuments that presided over northern skies"
 
the oldest wooden sculpture in the world, per Wikipedia
 
*--arguably, some say closer to nine

> from David Graeber and David Wengrow's Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021)

> tagged with #nomadism, #tribalism, #europe, #sculpture, #art

> created September 12, 2024 at 12:05:32 PM


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