As Nathan Myers says in the comment section here:
It seems unlikely that archaeologists could survive publishing anything about it.
Quite justifiably, he's wondering what a carving of the god Sisiutl is doing in an ancient Chinese city from approximately 4300 years ago. From Shimao, a neolithic settlement in Shenmu County, Shaanxi, China.
The style of carving looks Mayan, if anything. Compare this carving from Shimao, circa 2300 BC (below)
With another much later Mayan carving, circa 600 to 800 AD (below)
It's interesting isn't it?
But if we compare the Chinese carving of Sisiutl in the top two images above, to the following examples from across the Pacific Northwest of America, traditional designs but none of them older than a few hundred years, you can see clearly that all of the core design elements and motifs are in place 4300 years ago, in China of all places.
It's a mystery, no?
Read more:
https://www.youlinmagazine.com/article/ ... t/MTgwNA==
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals ... 286B973D5F
http://www.kaogu.cn/uploads/soft/Chines ... 0717y1.pdf
