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Venus of Hohle Fels
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Missing parts of sphinx found in German cave

Archaeologists have discovered fragments of one of the world's oldest sculptures, a lion-faced figurine estimated at 32,000 years old, from the dirt floor of a cave in southern Germany.
The ivory figure, along with a tiny figurine known as the Venus of Hohle Fels, marks the foundation of human artistry. Both were created by a Stone Age European culture that historians call Aurignacian.
The Aurignacians appear to have been the first modern humans, with handicrafts, social customs and beliefs. They hunted reindeer, woolly rhinoceros, mammoths and other animals.
The Lion-Man sculpture, gradually re-assembled in workshops over decades after the fragments were discovered in 1939, is a kind of reverse sphinx: a human body, standing erect, but with the head of a now extinct European cave lion.
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Norway's secret petroglyphs

It looked to be a routine excavation of what was thought to be a burial mound. But beneath the mound, archaeologists from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's Museum of Natural History and Archaeology found something more: unusual Bronze Age petroglyphs.
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Title: The Identification of the First Palaeolithic Animal Sculpture in the Ile-de-France: The Ségognole 3 Bison and its Ramifications
Authors: Duncan Caldwell

This  article  unveils  imagery  that  seems  intended  to  be  recognized  in  phases  from such sites as Font-de-Gaume (pg. 26-27), Laugerie-Basse (pg. 38-39), Isturitz (pg. 39-40), Saint-Cirq-du-Bugue (pg. 41), and Guy-Martin (pg. 29-37), after describing the  first  Palaeolithic  sculpture  of  an  animal  reported  in  the  Ile-de-France.
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1)  The extended panel of Ségognole 3. The grotto is known for a vulva between 2  faint  horses,  but  its  largest  graphic  element  is  a  groove  that  has  been explained away as a  "border". The groove  is actually  the caudal  line of a 1.9 metre-long  bas-relief  of  a  bison  that  has  been  overlooked  because  of  the failure  to  apply  the  same  conventions  of  the  vulva  -  figurative  realism, monumentality, and the use of natural forms - to the engraved line, although it is identical in manufacture. The wisent composed by natural relief accentuated by incising, flaking, and polishing confirms that the ensemble is Palaeolithic.
2)  A  survey  of  Palaeolithic  parietal  images whose  contours  are  defined  like  the Ségognole  bison  by  natural  relief  uncovered  over  120  examples.  This revealed  that mammoths  and  bison were  illustrated  far more  commonly  this way  than  other  species. Such  statistical  analyses  of  how  imagery  relates  to rock  morphology  provide  a  new  way  of  grouping  Palaeolithic  art  and  open another  window  into  makers'  intentions.  The  finding  also  raises  the phenomenon of imagery that played upon similarities between the contours of  bison and mammoths.
3)  The  "mammoth" on  the Grotte de Canecaude spear-thrower, which has one eye above a crescent that makes it read as a tusk and another eye below the same crescent  that makes  it  read as a bison's horn. The sculpture  is one of several images that combine mammoths and bison in the oldest known figure-ground illusions. 

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A Bundi-based amateur archaeologist has claimed to have discovered a rock painting of pre-historic age stretching up to 35 km in the Garadha area of the district.
Fifty-six-year-old Om Prakash Sharma, alias 'Kukki', who calls himself a professional archaeologist despite not having a degree in the subject, says, "The rock painting stretches up to 35 km, with its tail at Mandal dam, Bhilwara district and head at Banki village in Garadha area of the district."
The painting has images of human beings, animals such as tigers, panthers, antelopes and various antique tools, Kukki claims that it belongs to Mesolithic period that dates back to nearly ten thousand years in Stone Age. He said that there were 32 sites in the rock painting and are stretching over the basin of Mangli river.
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UK archaeologist finds cave paintings at 100 new African sites

A local team headed by Dr Sada Mire, of the Institute of Archaeology at University College London (UCL), made the finds, which include a man on horseback, painted around 4,000 years ago - one of the earliest known depictions of a mounted hunter. Leaping antelopes, prancing giraffes and snakes poised to strike are among animals and reptiles depicted with astonishing clarity.
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Cave markings believed to be first writings

The markings found in caves in France may have been ancient mans first attempts to write, a new study has suggested.
Until now, its believed that our ancestors underwent a creative explosion around 30,000 to 40,000 years ago, when they suddenly began to think abstractly and create rock art.
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Vandalism discovered at rock art site near Yuma

Authorities are offering up to a $1,500 reward for information leading to the identification and prosecution of those responsible for vandalism at the Sears Point archaeological site in Yuma County.
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The lone collection of Prehistoric Amerindian carvings so far discovered on this island has been damaged.

"Unfortunately, these have not been looked after awfully well" - Professor Peter Drewett, Archaeologist and Professor at the University of Sussex.

He pointed out several modern carvings that have been placed on top of the prehistoric ones, some of which were scoured out with a knife.

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5,000-year-old Venus figure found in Canakkale
A 5,000-year-old Venus figure has been found as part of an excavation being carried out in Canakkale's Ezine district.

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Oldest Lunar Calendars
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The Oldest Lunar Calendar on Earth
The Oldest Lunar Calendars and Earliest Constellations have been identified in cave art found in France and Germany. The astronomer-priests of these late Upper Palaeolithic Cultures understood mathematical sets, and the interplay between the moon annual cycle, ecliptic, solstice and seasonal changes on earth.

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