Rare Valdivian Abstract Stone Palette - 2000 BCE!

Pre-Columbian, South America, Ecuador, Valdivian, Earliest Horizon, ca. 2300 to 2000 BCE. A hand carved, light grey limestone palette of a stylized curved form with boldly cut lines delineating three

Pre-Columbian, South America, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, ca. 2300 to 2000 BCE. A hand-carved volcanic tuff stone idol of a highly abstract form depicting what scholars believe to be an owl. The relat

Pre-Columbian, South America, Ecuador, Valdivian, Earliest Horizon, ca. 2300 to 2000 BCE. A hand carved, light grey limestone palette of a curved, quasi-rectangular form with boldly cut lines delineat

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, earliest horizon, ca. 2300 to 2000 BCE. Who (or shall I say Hoo Hoo) doesn't love owls? This abstract depiction of the wise bird is carved from a shell of ri

Pre-Columbian, South America, Ecuador, Valdivian, Earliest Horizon, ca. 2300 to 2000 BCE. A hand carved, light grey limestone palette of a curved, quasi-rectangular form with boldly cut lines delineat

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Earliest Horizon, Valdivian, ca. 2300 to 2000 BCE. A Valdivian stone owl effigy with a stylized visage delineated on the upper section and a perched body with abstract wings up

Pre-Columbian, South America, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, ca. 2300 to 2000 BCE. A skillfully carved green mudstone idol depicting a highly abstract owl of a squat, trapezoidal form. The curious bird's

Central Asia, Iran / Afghanistan region, Bactrian culture, ca. 2nd to 1st millennium BCE. An unusual and rare stone palette made from a lightweight and lustrous black stone, perhaps anthracite or jet,

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, ca. 4000 to 2000 BCE. A huge pendant, hand-carved from shell, with a zoomorphic face on one side. The shell is a creamy grey color on its uncarved side, and

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, ca. 4000 to 2000 BCE. A charming pendant, hand-carved from shell, in the form of a standing human figure with a classically Valdivian coiffure, a simple face

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian people, ca. 3300 BCE. This is a light gray limestone slab with boldly cut lines delineating arrows and drilled dots forming a surface design. The edges of the stone h

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Earliest Horizon, Valdivian, ca. 2300 to 2000 BCE. A hand-carved stone owl effigy with stylized features, including a face dominated by eyes on its upper section and a perched

Accompanied by custom metal stand, Ecuador, ca. 2300-2000 BCE; 10 1/8" x 4 3/8" (figure only)

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, ca. 4000 to 3500 BCE. A small, cylindrical carved piece of creamy white and grey stone representational figure, highly polished, with an incised design that

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian, Earliest Horizon, ca. 4000 to 3500 BCE. A pair of small, cylindrical carved pieces of creamy green grey stone representational figures, highly polished, with incised

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian, Earliest Horizon (Early Piguigua-Late Piquigua Phase, Early Formative Period) ca. 2300 to 2000 BCE. A trio of small clay figures with faces created by incised slits

**Originally Listed At $125** Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, Earliest Horizon, ca. 2300 to 2000 BCE. A lovely necklace featuring a Valdivian pottery spindle whorl pendant beneath petite st

Ancient Near East, The Levant, Tell Brak, Middle Uruk Period, ca. 3700 to 3500 BCE. An abstract gray stone idol of conjoined figures carved with flat bodies surmounted by elliptical heads that each co

Ancient Near East, The Levant, Tell Brak, Middle Uruk Period, ca. 3700 to 3500 BCE. A petite and abstract gray stone idol of conjoined figures carved with flat bodies surmounted by elliptical heads th

Pre-Columbian, South America, Ecuador, Valdivian, Earliest Horizon, ca. 2300 to 2000 BCE. A hand carved, light grey limestone palette of a somewhat rectangular form with incised, string-cut diagonal a

Pre-Columbian, South America, Ecuador, Valdivian, Earliest Horizon, ca. 2300 to 2000 BCE. A hand carved, light grey limestone palette of a curved, quasi-rectangular form with boldly cut lines delineat

Pre-Columbian, South America, Ecuador, Valdivian, Earliest Horizon, ca. 2300 to 2000 BCE. A hand carved, light grey limestone palette of a curved, quasi-rectangular form with boldly cut lines delineat

Central Asia, Pakistan and Afghanistan, Gandharan Empire, ca. 200 BCE to 100 CE. A deep bowl with a wide, flat rim decorated with low relief repeated abstract symbols. The interior of the bowl has a c

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian, ca. 1800 to 1500 BCE. An intriguing hatchet-sized axe carved from mottled emerald-green stone with dark inclusions. The tool has a cylindri