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Stone collector Luigi Lineri, 79, holds a horse jaw bone that is shaped like a fish, discovered along Adige river in Zevio, near Verona, Italy, June 10, 2016. Luigi Lineri's home workshop is covered in stones – tens of thousands of them. They resemble animal heads, human faces and other forms, and the artist and poet believes may have been shaped by prehistoric humans. Lineri has built his vast collection over the last 50 years, making his finds along the Adige river, near Verona in northern Italy. “I haven't counted them and don't intend to do so but the quantity is significant”, Lineri said. “At first I thought that a few stones for each different shape would be enough and then I understood that in their thousands, they give a sense of community... For me the quantity is sacred: it takes a lot to build a cathedral”. Lineri says there has been no independent verification of whether the stones are indeed prehistoric sculpture and has not sought one, being more interested in them as “a work of art”. (Photo by Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters)
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