This ice-age carving of a mammoth or a mastodon was recently discovered in Florida. The carving was made on a small bone, and is 3 inches long from the top of the head to the tip of the tail, and 1.75 inches tall from the top of the head to the bottom of the right foreleg. Researchers estimate the carving is about 13,000 years old. It is now the only known ice-age depiction of this animal from the Western hemisphere.
The coolest thing about these carvings (other than their incredible age and the fact they show an extinct animal) is the fact that they were designed to move when viewed by firelight.
Do you see the multiple outlines of the mammoth? The way the feet and trunk change position in them? Different lines would have been illuminated as the firelight flickered, giving the illusion of moving images.
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