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Archaeologists from Altai State University have found a massive granite rock sculpture that has been stylised into a man's figure.
It was found near a gas station, where the Novisibirsk-Kochki-Pavlodar bypass is being currently built.
The 3000 years old 'deer rock' sculpture has been relocated and placed on a pedestal near the Local History Museum.

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Archaeologists have been busy excavating a Stone Age art cache in Russia called Zaraysk. Among the findings are some carvings on mammoth bones, statuettes, and a necklace made with arctic fox teeth. Researchers believe that the items date from the Upper Palaeolithic period.

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An ancient cave painting from northern Australia depicts a previously unknown species of large bat, researchers say.
The team thinks the rock art from Australia's Kimberley region could date to the height of the last Ice Age - about 20-25,000 years ago.

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A British discoverer who says he has found the world's largest rock sculptures is poised to prove his claims.
Bill Veall used the latest satellite imaging techniques to search the Peruvian mountains for ancient shapes and formations.
He was astonished to discover a series of designs, carved into the Andean Cordillera.

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Remarkable prehistoric paintings hidden away in the caves of northern Spain could be dated accurately for the first time by experts from the University of Bristol.
A team from the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology has just returned from an expedition to the Cantabria and Asturias regions of Spain where they have removed samples from more than 20 prehistoric painted caves.
The project, funded by NERC (the Natural Environment Research Council) will use a new dating method, based on the radioactive decay of uranium, to find out how old the cave paintings are.

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Scientists have discovered that prehistoric cave paintings took up to 20,000 years to complete.
Rather than being created in one session, as archaeologists previously thought, many of the works discovered across Europe were produced over hundreds of generations who added to, refreshed and painted over the original pieces of art.
Until now it has been extremely difficult to pinpoint when prehistoric cave paintings and carvings were created, but a pioneering technique is allowing researchers to date cave art accurately for the first time and show how the works were crafted over thousands of years.

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Indian rock art needs more recognition globally and the country itself has to realise it is a repository of much more than the Indus Valley and Mughal periods, says an Australian expert.

Indian art is at least 200,000 years old, which is an educated guess and it could be much more. This is of great cultural significance to India, and to the world - Robert Bednarik, rock art expert.

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By curious chance two magazines widely separated in perspective produced articles on pre-history in issues that came out the same week recently. One was The New Yorker, with an article on the ancient cave art in southern France. The other was the Scientific American, with an article on the recent employment of DNA to track the course of human migration over the centuries.
The New Yorker article by Judith Thurman describes the cave art in detail, as well as the efforts of French officials to preserve it. Some of it dates back to 32,000 years ago. Others are about 18,000 years old, and still others date from about 11,000 years ago.

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A huge cluster of ancient rock drawings has been discovered in northern China's Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region. Through the help of local herdsmen, the over one thousand drawings from the Bronze Era were discovered about 55 kilometres west of Hailiutu county.
Most of the drawings are carved on black granite along the mountainsides. The drawings stretch about five kilometres into a valley near the Bayinhudu mountain.
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A rare piece of Neolithic art has been discovered on a beach in Orkney.
The 6,000-year-old relic, thought to be a fragment from a larger piece, was left exposed by storms which swept across the country last week.
Local plumber David Barnes, who found the stone on the beach in Sandwick Bay, South Ronaldsay, said circular markings had shown up in the late-afternoon winter sun, drawing his attention to the piece.
Archaeologists last night heralded the discovery as a "once-in- 50-years event". But they warned that a search for other fragments in the area would be hampered by a lack of funds.

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