| 单词 | birdstone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbirdstone birdstone n. any of a number of small stone artefacts carved into the shape of a bird found on the east coast of North America. Such artefacts are believed to have been made by indigenous peoples of North America between 5,000 and 2,500 years ago to serve as weights fastened on to the ends of sticks (called atlatls: see atlatl n.) used to propel spears or darts. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > statuary > [noun] > statue > Palaeolithic or Neolithic birdstone1881 Venus1912 fiddle idol1939 1881 C. C. Abbott Primitive Industry 365 The curious carved ‘bird stones’, common to our Atlantic coast states. 1907 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians I. 148/1 Bird-stones, a name given to a class of prehistoric stone objects of undetermined purpose, usually resembling or remotely suggesting the form of a bird. 2012 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 8 June c28/5 Scholars have suggested that the artifacts, known as birdstones and documented in excavations dating back to the 1840s, were amulets or perhaps finials for ceremonial staffs. < as lemmas |
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