[Aztlan] Oldest work of art in North America found?

[michael ruggeri]

Listeros,

An amateur fossil collector found a 15 inch pre-historic bone fragment  
near Vero Beach with a crude engraving of a mammoth or mastodon on it.  
All the tests so far show the artifact to be genuine and from 13,000  
years ago.
This would make the object the oldest work of art in North America.  
The collector had the bone for two years before noticing the incising.  
Archaeologists are now digging at the site where the object was found  
to see if there are more treasures to be found. The mammoth shown on  
the bone became extinct 13,000 years ago.
The University of Florida have run tests and they appear to show the  
object is genuine. They are now comparing soil from the site of the  
find with the object. Steven Holen, curator of paleontology at the  
Denver Museum of Nature and Science said, “It is one of the most  
spectacular finds in American archaeology in recent history.”

TCPalm.com has the story here with 2 photos;
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2009/jun/05/bone-appears-to-date-human-presence-in-treasure/

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