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Priceless art dating from the Stone Age has been damaged in forest fires, some deliberately set, in northwestern Spain, officials said. Color paintings and carvings on rocks, known as petroglyphs, of wildlife and geometric patterns dating back about 4,000 years, have been charred and blackened...

Canada's only major Arctic petroglyph site - a 1,500-year-old gallery of mysterious faces carved into a soapstone ridge on a tiny island off of Quebec's northern coast - has been ransacked by vandals in what the region's top archaeologist suspects was a religiously motivated attack by devout Chri...

Ancient rock carvings inside a hill-top cave near Kalpetta (Kerala, India), believed to date back to the neolithic period, are facing ruin for want of proper attention by the government and academic bodies. The rare historic treasure at Thovarymala, throwing light into human habitation in the Wa...

The Temple of the Fox lay covered by dirt and sand for 4,000 years in the barren hills of Buena Vista, Peru, before it was unearthed in June 2004 by Robert Benfer, professor emeritus of anthropology at Missouri University. In the 10 metre high Andean temple, Benfer’s team found the earliest known...

Petroglyph thefts near Bishop stun federal authorities, Paiutes Ancient hunters and gatherers etched vivid petroglyphs on cliffs in the Eastern Sierra that withstood winds, flash floods and earthquakes for more than 3,500 years. Thieves needed only a few hours to cut them down and haul them away...

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petroglyphs Cave Art Stone Age Art ( 1 2 3 4 5 … 7 ) (Preview)	Off Topic	61	43894	Oct 26 07:28 2016 by Blobrana
Priceless art dating from the Stone Age has been damaged in forest fires, some deliberately set, in northwestern Spain, officials said. Color paintings and carvings on rocks, known as petroglyphs, of wildlife and geometric patterns dating back about 4,000 years, have been charred and blackened...
petroglyphs Inuit Arctic petroglyph site (Preview)	General news	1	2243	Jan 23 17:33 2009 by Blobrana
Canada's only major Arctic petroglyph site - a 1,500-year-old gallery of mysterious faces carved into a soapstone ridge on a tiny island off of Quebec's northern coast - has been ransacked by vandals in what the region's top archaeologist suspects was a religiously motivated attack by devout Chri...
petroglyphs Rock carvings ( 1 2 3 ) (Preview)	Off Topic	21	12404	Oct 1 22:35 2011 by Blobrana
Ancient rock carvings inside a hill-top cave near Kalpetta (Kerala, India), believed to date back to the neolithic period, are facing ruin for want of proper attention by the government and academic bodies. The rare historic treasure at Thovarymala, throwing light into human habitation in the Wa...
petroglyphs Temple Temple of the Fox (Preview)	Observatories	3	3951	May 11 19:29 2007 by Blobrana
The Temple of the Fox lay covered by dirt and sand for 4,000 years in the barren hills of Buena Vista, Peru, before it was unearthed in June 2004 by Robert Benfer, professor emeritus of anthropology at Missouri University. In the 10 metre high Andean temple, Benfer’s team found the earliest known...
petroglyphs Bishop petroglyphs (Preview)	Off Topic	1	1276	Nov 20 20:41 2012 by Blobrana
Petroglyph thefts near Bishop stun federal authorities, Paiutes Ancient hunters and gatherers etched vivid petroglyphs on cliffs in the Eastern Sierra that withstood winds, flash floods and earthquakes for more than 3,500 years. Thieves needed only a few hours to cut them down and haul them away...