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British archaeologists have discovered more than 100 ancient rock carvings in boulders and open bedrock which date back 5,000 years.
The Neolithic carvings of circles, rings and hollowed cups were found in Northumberland and Durham in Britain, the BBC reported Thursday.

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Vietnamese researchers invite Indonesian colleagues to conduct a joint research to decipher engraved signs or symbols on hundreds of big stones in Sapa city, Lao Cai province, Vietnam.
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A prehistoric rock carving, believed to be 5,000 years old, has been uncovered on a mountain bike trail near Lochgilphead in Argyll during recent storms.
For years, the rock art has remained hidden and protected from the elements by a huge tree in the Forestry Commission Scotland's Achnabreac Forest, which was blown down three weeks ago.
The rock is a rare discovery and is inscribed with a dice-like carving.
It sits high above the mouth of Kilmartin Glen and directly overlooks the rock art previously discovered at Cairnbaan.

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Eastern Utah's Nine Mile Canyon holds more than 10,000 known American Indian rock-art images. But they may be no match for 800 gas wells.
A Denver-based energy company's proposal to drill at least that many wells on the West Tavaputs Plateau threatens the thousand-year-old Anasazi ruins, where dust and chemicals are already corroding peerless rock art.

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The deliberate destruction of a series of ancient Guanche rock carvings has sent shock waves through academic circles and all who value their heritage.
The site was located in Santa Cruz, some 250 metres above the TF-1 autopista that links the city with the south. It was still pending a belated listed category by the authorities. Whoever was responsible has saved them the trouble.
The desolate scene of rocks chiselled and sledgehammered out of existence indicated, at least to the grieving conservationists who visited it last week, a deliberate and systematic exercise in total destruction rather than a simple case of vandalism.
A spokesman for green group ATAN (Asociación Tinerfeña de Amigos de la Naturaleza) said their members are convinced the blame lies with developers.

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Experts are studying a carved stone recently uncovered on Whitby Abbey Headland in North Yorkshire to see if it represents the first Bronze Age artefact from the site.
St Hild founded an abbey on Whitby Headland in 657AD, which is now an important historical site. However, little was known about the site in the Anglo Saxon period in which it was founded until archaeologists carried out clifftop excavations in 2001 and 2002.
They found signs of industrial activities like glass and lead-making from the Anglian period (7th-9th century), and the first evidence of an Iron Age domestic dwelling on the site, dating from 500BC-100AD.
An archaeological team returned this autumn for a six-week dig, and found an even more intriguing object a mysterious stone carved with linear markings. Measuring about 40cm by 50cm, it appears to be of the type of Bronze Age carved stones found on the North York Moors in 2003, dating from 2000BC-700BC.

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They aren't certain, but underwater archaeologists say they might have discovered a boulder with a prehistoric carving in Lake Michigan's Grand Traverse Bay.
The granite rock has markings that resemble a mastodon -- an elephant-like creature that once inhabited parts of North America -- with what could be a spear in its side, divers said.
They came across the boulder at a depth of about 40 feet while searching for shipwrecks in June, said Mark Holley, a scientist with the Grand Traverse Bay Underwater Preserve Council.

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Ladakh, an ancient land located in the northernmost part of India, is the gateway to Afghanistan and Pakistan in the west, Central Asian countries to the north, Tibet and China in the east and the plains of Chenab-Beas-Sutlej and the Ganga in the south. It has, therefore, seen a lot of cultural exchanges and intermixing of people. The vastness of this region has preserved in itself the footprint trails of these civilisations. Scattered throughout Ladakh are unique rock carvings made by ancient people who used the glazed surfaces of huge magnetite rocks and boulders as canvas to carve out various pictures depicting an array of activities of their day to day life - economic activities, religion, culture, beliefs, and customs.

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More Neolithic rock etchings have been in the Algerian desert, dating back from around 8,000 years ago and showing cattle herds. 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.

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Rock Art of Twyfelfontein, Namibia
Rock-art, in short, prehistoric and historic imagery making, mainly on natural rock surfaces, often accumulated at one specially selected site, even on one particular specific rock panel. Simultaneously, nearby and, inexplicably to our Western minds, equally suitable sites or rock surfaces were ignored. Both the reasons to select that specific site or panel and the reasons to ignore the other rocks are often completely obscure to us. However, it seems that the first mark (this may also have been a natural mark in or on the stone!) repeatedly seems to have triggered the execution of subsequent rock-art images. This psychological process results in an often confusing ****tail of various rock-art traditions at one site or on one panel. Frequently, such panels comprise imagery consisting of miscellaneous rock-art elements expressing different symbolism. One of the most enigmatic accretions that may appear on rock-art panels is represented by the combination of cupules and animal imagery. In many cases there seems not to be any apparent relationship between those two much differing rock-art elements. This is mainly due to the enigmatic character of the cupule. Cupules are small, hemispherical, non-utilitarian depressions in a rock surface.

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