Word: fossilizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were stone chisels and sickles, made of polished deer antlers and fitted with hard flint blades. The tools of war were sling-stones and maces with heads of blue-veined marble. Hacilar's women had their own sort of weapons: Mellaart found obsidian pendants and bracelets made of fossil shells, as well as lumps of red ocher that were presumably ground into a kind of rouge...
...large (6 ft. 1 in. by 8 ft. 1 in.) Fossil Hunters was painted from life; he used models for the three figures, as well as yards of billowing draperies. But what interests Dickinson is never pure representation. It is impossible to tell just what the figures are doing; because of the wonders Dickinson performs with perspective, the figures seem to be lying down, standing, and floating under water all at once. The sea-green light, which seems to come from nowhere, falls not on the figures but on the folds of cloth, on a hand, on a death mask...
They could not have imagined in what spirit their work would be commemorated in 1960, for to modern man Chartres Cathedral is a precious and perfect fossil of a pre-secular time when faith and the church held together the whole structure of society...
Diced Brontosaurus bones are now available at the Peabody Museum trinket store. Although to the uninitiated or the unromantic these items look like ordinary chicken bones, the museum is also offering fossil crocodile scute, horse bones, and sharks' teeth...
While the diced Brontosaurus bones would be too small to make impressive room decorations, the fossil crocodile scutes have definite possibilities for those seeking unusual paper weights or door stops...