“Man is a Hunter” (Mammoth and Hunters) by Rick Taylor
The title “Man is a Hunter” says it all. Human beings evolved as hunter gatherers and devised ingenious tools and methodology to overcome huge physical challenges. Man developed hundreds of techniques to kill animals for their survival. Here is a scene from 25,000 years ago as ancient hunters with “Clovis point ” stone tipped spears attempt to harvest a wooly mammoth, a common animal of the grassland steppes. During this interglacial period, human beings and wildlife crossed a land bridge which is now the Bering Sea and spread southward across the North American Continent. Many fossils and frozen remains of wooly mammoths are unearthed annually. Sometimes intact tusks up to 12 feet long are uncovered. Broken ivory is made into small objects and is legal to trade. “Man is a Hunter” bears a scrimshawed fossilized mammoth ivory tag. This limited edition bronze sculpture is especially coveted by those who collect the ancient wooly mammoth artifacts as it tells the story of the hunt from a prehistoric perspective. Human beings are genetically predisposed to hunt and still today carry on that tradition although our modern tools now favor the hunter rather than the hunted. “Man is a Huntert” has an enhanced color patina and stands 21″ tall. The edition is limited to 48. $18,000 USD includes crating and shipping is US and Canada. THIS EDITION IS SOLD OUT