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Long before text messaging, long before the Internet, long before newspapers people pecked their musings into the rock walls of King Canyon.
Those rock carvings from centuries ago known as petroglyphs are one good reason for a ramble into the canyon west of Tucson.
Chipped and weathered with age, the King Canyon glyphs are far from the most wondrous rock art in the Southwest. But their mysterious zigs, zags, circles and symbols are literally a set-in-stone communiqué from ancient Indians known today as the Hohokam.

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Spectacular prehistoric depictions of animal and human figures created up to 6,000 years ago on Western Saharan rocks have been vandalised by United Nations peacekeepers, The Times has learnt.
Archaeological sites boasting ancient paintings and engravings of giraffes, buffalo and elephants have been defaced within the past two years by personnel attached to the UN mission, known by its French acronym, Minurso.

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The oldest intact figurine is to go on public show for the first time in Germany at the end of this month.
The four-centimetre tall depiction of a mammoth is the work of an unknown Stone Age carver 30,000 to 40,000 years ago.
Other sculptures from the period, such as a horse and a lion-man, also exist, but are damaged, with their legs broken off. They date from about the same time as ancient European cave paintings.
But the little ivory figure, weighing 7.5 grams, has a special place as the world's oldest intact sculpture. It was discovered last year in the Vogelherd cave near Niederstotzingen in south-western Germany, a mine of prehistoric artefacts. It will be on display Oct 20-21 in Niederstotzingen Palace.
Visitors will also be allowed into the cave the same weekend. The first ancient carvings were found there in 1931 and German archaeologists led by Nicholas Conard resumed excavations in the cave in 2005.
They discovered the little mammoth in the spoil shovelled away and not properly sieved in 1931.

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Ancient native archaeological sites along the shores of Burrard Inlet may be suffering damage from last week's oil spill in Burnaby, leaders of the Tsleil-Waututh (Burrard) First Nation said yesterday.
Pictographs, arrowheads and other artefacts could be damaged not only by the oil that escaped from oil-slick booms after Tuesday's spill but also by the cleanup efforts, said hereditary chief Bill Williams.

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Long before air-conditioned art galleries became the meeting point of the well-heeled, there was, well, an art gallery. Of another sort. Bhimbetka was where man expressed his artistic yearnings some 10,000 years ago. The rock shelters, located about 45 km from Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, have hundreds of paintings that depict the pre-historic way of life here.
Of the 700 caves in the region, more than 400 have paintings.

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The popular Land Hill petroglyph site has been vandalised again.
Federal officials are offering $500 for information leading to the identification of people involved in scratching Bad Habits into a panel of ancient rock art.

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Ice Age ivory 'charm'
Archaeologists have found what is believed to be the world's oldest fully intact ivory carving of a mammoth from an Ice Age site in Germany that was inhabited by the first Homo sapiens 35,000 years ago.
The tiny carving, which is only 3.7cms long, has a pointed tail, an arched trunk and powerful legs that join together at the bottom, enabling it to be hung from the neck and worn as what was almost certainly a charm. The mammoth is among a group of Ice Age figurines retrieved by the American archaeologist Nicholas Conard and his colleagues from Tübingen University in Germany. They were found in the Vogelherd cave in the south-western state of Baden-Wüerttemberg last year.

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According to the newspaper der Spiegel , archaeologists have discovered a 35,000-year-old carving of a woolly mammoth in southwestern Germany.
It is believed to be the oldest ivory carving every found. An archaeology team from the University of Tubingen found the figurine in the Swabian Jura, a 722-foot-long plateau in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg.
The figure of the woolly mammoth is tiny, measuring just 3.7 cm long and weighing a mere 7.5 grams, and displays skilfully detailed carvings.


"You can be sure that there has been art in Swabia for over 35,000 years" - Nicholas J. Conard, Tübingen archaeologist.

In total five mammoth-ivory figurines from the Ice Age have been found at the Vogelherd Cave in southwestern Germany. The new finds include well-preserved remains of a lion figurine, fragments of a mammoth figurine and two unidentified representations.
Radiocarbon dating indicates the figurines belong to the Aurignacian culture, which is associated with the arrival of the first modern humans in Europe.

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Algeria, a treasure house of prehistoric Saharan art, has discovered more neolithic rock etchings in the desert from around 8,000 years ago showing cattle herds, a government newspaper reported Monday.

El Moudjahid daily said local tour guide Hadj Brahim found about 40 images near the town of Bechar, about 800 km  southwest of the capital Algiers.
Prehistoric paintings are found in many parts of the Sahara, often portraying a garden-like environment of hunting and dancing in bright greens, yellows and reds at a time before desertification, which happened around 4,000 years ago.
Algeria's best known drawings are in the southeast in the Tassili N'Ajjer mountains. The site of 15,000 images has been named world's finest prehistoric open-air art museum by UNESCO.
Despite a rich Saharan inheritance, Algeria remains off the beaten track for most tourists because of its politically unstable history and an undeveloped tourist sector.

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Rock paintings from centuries past decorate small alcoves deep in the red-rock country northwest of here.
A short stroll from the prehistoric galleries are cliff dwellings occupied from about A.D. 1100 to 1350 by Indians known today as the Sinagua People.
These traces of ancient life, on lands managed by the Forest Service, are preserved as the Palatki Heritage Site.

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