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ANCIENT GRAVES DISCOVERED IN CHANIA

60 graves, full of invaluable findings, reveal a lot about Chania and its 5,500 years of history. The whole article here .

IMPLICAZIONI ASTRONOMICHE SUI DIPINTI DI CHUMASH

Un interessante articolo del Time scritto da Matt Kettmann sui “punti di contatto” tra paletnologia e  archeoastronomia. An interesting article written by Matt Kettmann on relations between paleontology and archaeoastronomy.

ABORIGINAL ART UNDER CEMENT

Aboriginal rock art under cement. The company has been fined $280,000 by the federal government. The site is in Western Australia extended into a heritage zone containing indigenous rock art up to 10,000 years old. The whole article here

THE HANDS IN PREHISTORY / LE MANI NELLA PREISTORIA

Lasciare l’impronta della propria mano è un gesto antichissimo ripetutosi in ogni epoca e in ogni continente, sulle rocce alla luce del sole come nelle grotte nell’oscurità più profonda; attraverso il colore o per mezzo dell’incisione, con la mano aperta o semichiusa, dagli adulti e dai bambini, dalle donne e dagli uomini. Ma cosa ciò [...]

Books

PORTO BADISCO, GROTTA DEI CERVI
The Phosphenic Deer Cave
The author, Maria Laura Leone, discusses the possible meaning of abstract paintings of The Deer Cave, a neolithic cave located in Puglia in southern Italy, whose interpretation has so far in the dark. The study is therefore the result of an unprecedented effort of interpretation that produced the only text on the subject after the monograph by Paolo Graziosi 1980. Contains Iconographic Album with the findings of all the paintings in the cave and explanations. This Book is available in English and Italiano

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