in the U.S. found an ancient piece of art America
 

in the U.S. found an ancient piece of art America

Discovered the oldest piece of art in America, reports Associated Press. Image Age mammoth, hollowed on the bone, is at least 13 thousand years.
A piece of bone, which shows the animal, found amateur archaeologist James Kennedy (James Kennedy) in 2006-2007, when he worked at the site of old excavations in Vero Beach (Vero Beach), Florida. At the beginning of the XX century in this place already found the bones of prehistoric people and extinct animals of the Ice Age. For several years, finding lay in Kennedy, but in 2009, wiping the dust from the artifact, he found the picture and turned to the scientist.
The researchers immediately doubt the authenticity of the picture. To work on an image have been involved artists, materials scientists, anthropologists, paleontologists and forensic scientists. The scientists used optical and electron microscopy to determine the elemental composition of bone. They found that the image and the raw surface around it belong to the same period. The researchers also concluded that the image was done without the aid of metal tools, which confirms its authenticity.
Report on research recently published in the Journal of Archaeological Science. Now find itself exposed to the Florida Museum of Natural History in Geysnville. The most ancient images of animals in North America is still regarded as the drawings on the walls of a canyon in Texas. They are about 4000 years.
In 1959, a message that found the ancient image of a mammoth has come from Mexico, but then raised questions about its authenticity, and then figure mysteriously disappeared.

- Image of ancient mammoth or mastodon
found on bone - Associated Press

And here is the image itself.