HK70-71, Har Karkom, Israel

I took these photos on a exploratory hike to the southwestern corner of the Har Karkom mesa. The landscape strikingly corresponded to one of three precognition dreams that I had over a year before arriving at Har Karkom. I took the trail up to the dry wadi, climbed up past HK70 into the many Paleolithic hutfloors around HK71 and HK72. I found candidates for zoomorphic and anthropomorphic flint figurines on at least a half dozen of these hutfloors.

• Trail near HK67. A boulder-shaped like a two-horned rhinoceros head, on valley trail as it nears the wadi
• Many dozens of--I counted 50--small black stones apparently flaked into geometrics and complex shapes, that I call 'story stones', on the climb up from the wadi past HK70
• HK71. On a hutfloor entrance, three flaked flints (1) triangular geometric; (2) horsehead; (3) possible 'female' figurine
• HK71. A tringular 'female' figurine
• HK71. A 'female' figurine with arms, perhaps holding an infant
• HK71. On other hut floors, zoomorphic flints like horseheads, bovines and geometric and figurative 'goddess' figurines
• HK72d. Combination flint -- bison and female
  3 stones in an east-west alignment, figuration like an elephant

Some of these are presented in this gallery. Interpretations: James Harrod.

Note. While the hutfloor sites in the area of HK71 are distinguished into HK71 a, b, and c, I could not determine precisely to which of these the shown artifacts belong.

Photo © James Harrod. All James Harrod site photos taken on Emmanuel Anati Har Karkom Expedition, April 1996.
4/24/06