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The non-fraud of the Middle Bronze Age stone goddess from Ustica: a reverse Piltdown hoax

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Susan S. Lukesh  and
R. Ross Holloway
Susan S. Lukesh
Affiliation:
144 Hofstra University, Hempstead NY 11549-1440, USA
R. Ross Holloway
Affiliation:
Center for Old World Archaeology & Art, Brown University, Providence RI 02912, USA
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Abstract

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The authors examine claims that the sole surviving example of relief sculpture from the Middle Bronze of Italy or Sicily, discovered in the excavations on the island of Ustica in 1991, is a forgery that was deliberately planted on the site. Their refutation is based on examination of the photographic evidence that has been published in support of these claims.

Keywords

Bronze AgeUsticafigurative artforgeryrelief sculpture
Type
News & Notes
Information
Antiquity , Volume 76 , Issue 294 , December 2002 , pp. 974 - 979
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2002

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