February 2012
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A Question of Style: Reading Rock Art Using Art... →
oldowan:
Ancient engravings and drawings are present all around the world. They are witnesses of people’s journeys through time and space. While their original meaning is lost, they still tell stories about their creator, about the content, about the climate and the environment of that time
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Archaeologists Find Ice Age Paintings in Central... →
oldowan:
Recent excavations conducted by the University of Tübingen at Hohle Fels Cave in the Swabian Jura of southwestern Germany have produced new evidence for the earliest painting tradition in Central Europe about 15,000 years ago.
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Paleolithic Homos Come Out of the Cave
wtfarthistory:
Gay male couple in a French cave:
Male Couple Engaged in Intercourse, possibly 14,000 B.C., found in the Cave of Enlène, Ariège, Pyrenees, France
Lesbian couple in a German cave:
The Dancers, possibly 20,000 B.C., found in the Cave of Gönnersdorf, Germany
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Oldest Rock Art in Egypt Discovered →
solutreantoolkit:
According to this article from Past Horizons, this art was discovered by Canadian archaeologists in the 60s and was simply “forgotten” until it was rediscovered in 2005.
The deposits covering the rock art, in part composed of wind-blown sediments, were dated at the Laboratory of Mineralogy and Petrology (Luminescence Research Group) of Ghent University (Belgium) using...
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First Neanderthal cave paintings discovered in... →
oldowan:
Cave paintings in Malaga, Spain, could be the oldest yet found – and the first to have been created by Neanderthals.
Looking oddly akin to the DNA double helix, the images in fact depict the seals that the locals would have eaten, says José Luis Sanchidrián at the University of Cordoba, Spain. They have “no parallel in Palaeolithic art”, he adds. His team say that charcoal remains...
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private investigator cream eggs salt sandpaper:... →
archaeologicalnews:
TUBA CITY, Ariz. (AP) – In the far reaches of northern Arizona, where city sprawl gives way to majestic canyons and a holy place is defined not by steeple and cross but rather by earth and sky, lies a monument to a people’s past and a symbol of the promise of peace…
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