1. The ambum stone c.1500 B.c.e found in new guinea
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2. Form Made with Greywacke stone
Variety of sandstone
Lots of chipping and hammering with stone tools

3. Function The function remains obscure
Very little information is known about who produced this art
Objects like this are often considered sacred
Credited with supernatural powers
People who live in this region use this and others as spirit stones
Used in sorcery and other rituals

4. Content Believed to represent a juvenile long beaked spiny anteater
Thought to have been revered for fat prior to pigs

5. context Made more than 3500 years ago
Earliest known pacific work of art
Higher sculptural level
Fashioned as some animal human
Thought to have been revered for unusual fat deposits prior to the introduction of pigs

6. vocabulary Incurred: To come into or acquire.
Mortars: Receptacle of hard material.
Greywacke: A dark grey course-grained wacke.
Pestles: A tool for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar.