News tagged with ancient rock paintings
New technology for dating ancient rock paintings
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Mar 11, 2009 |
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A new dating method finally is allowing archaeologists to incorporate rock paintings — some of the most mysterious and personalized remnants of ancient cultures — into the tapestry of evidence used to study life in prehistoric ...
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Moon Rock Turns Out to be Fake
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Dutch national Rijksmuseum made an embarrassing announcement last week that one of its most loved possessions, a moon rock, is a fake -- just an old piece of petrified wood that's never ...
Synchrotron light unveils oil in ancient Buddhist paintings from Bamiyan
Apr 22, 2008 |
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The world was in shock when in 2001 the Talibans destroyed two ancient colossal Buddha statues in the Afghan region of Bamiyan. Behind those statues, there are caves decorated with precious paintings from ...
Rock art marks transformations in traditional Peruvian societies
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 04, 2008 |
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Peru is one of the Latin American countries, like Argentina and Brazil, where rock art is thought to have developed throughout a period stretching from 10,000 BC to 1500 AD. The wealth and diversity of the series of pictorial ...
Ancient rock collisions may have formed Western Australia
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 30, 2007 |
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A new 3D picture of the geology of Western Australia, captured by measuring seismic waves from deep in the Earth’s crust, has provided evidence that it was created when vast regions of ancient world slammed into each other.
Homer's ancient Ithaca may not be Ithaki
Jan 10, 2007 |
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The home of Greek king and Homeric warrior Odysseus may be a peninsula of Kefalonia, not Ithaki, as previously thought, British history sleuths said.
Ancient archaeology holds clue to new computer systems
Aug 06, 2008 |
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Researchers are looking back at ancient civilisations in order to develop future computer systems in a £1.75m project.
Vandalism hurts Norwegian rock carvings
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 10, 2007 |
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Norwegian archaeologists believe the vandals who damaged ancient rock carvings are actually people with misguided ideas on making them more visible.
Ancient toothed whale remains found near Santa Cruz
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 13, 2009 |
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A 1,000-pound slab of sandstone lifted off a beach in Santa Cruz County, Calif., Wednesday may provide a better glimpse of what plied the seas 5 million years ago.
Rich Ore Deposits Linked to Ancient Atmosphere
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Much of our planet's mineral wealth was deposited billions of years ago when Earth's chemical cycles were different from today's. Using geochemical clues from rocks nearly 3 billion years old, a group of ...
Researchers find oldest rocks on Earth
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 25, 2008 |
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Canadian bedrock more than four billion years old may be the oldest known section of the Earth's early crust. Scientists at the Carnegie Institution used geochemical methods to obtain an age of 4.28 billion ...
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