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  2. Petroglyph - Wikipedia

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    In scholarly texts, a petroglyph is a rock engraving, whereas a petrograph (or pictograph) is a rock painting. [1] [2] In common usage, the words are sometimes used interchangeably. [3] [4] Both types of image belong to the wider and more general category of rock art or parietal art.

  3. Pre-industrial society - Wikipedia

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    The term "pre-industrial" is also used as a benchmark for environmental conditions before the development of industrial society: for example, the Paris Agreement, adopted in Paris on 12 December, 2015 and in force from 4 November, 2016, "aims to limit global warming to well below 2, preferably to 1.5 degrees celsius, compared to pre-industrial ...

  4. Rock art - Wikipedia

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    Their age is suggested as being 12,500 years old (c. 10,480 B.C.) by the anthropologists working on the site because of extinct fauna depicted. Rock paintings or pictographs are located in many areas across Canada. There are over 400 sites attributed to the Ojibway from northern Saskatchewan to the Ottawa River. [42] Pomier Caves, Dominican ...

  5. Angono Petroglyphs - Wikipedia

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    The artifacts suggest that the site was used during the Neolithic age, or earlier than 2000 BC. [ 2 ] In 2018, Jalandoni & Taçon proposed that the petroglyphs consist of two different phases created by different cultures.

  6. Painting in the Americas before European colonization

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    The most elaborate and artistic painted pictographs being the Rock art of the Chumash people, and petroglyphs those of the Coso people in the Coso Rock Art District. [12] Ancient Northwest Coast art features formline painting on woven items and wood; however, few of these items survived the centuries the temperate rainforest climate.

  7. List of time periods - Wikipedia

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    Industrial Age (1760–1970) Machine Age (1880–1945) ... South Asian Stone Age. Pre-Harappan. Mehrgarh; Bronze Age India (3340 BC – 1350 BC) Indus Valley ...

  8. Pictogram - Wikipedia

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    A pictogram (also pictogramme, pictograph, or simply picto [1]) is a graphical symbol that conveys meaning through its visual resemblance to a physical object. Pictograms are used in systems of writing and visual communication.

  9. History of industrialisation - Wikipedia

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    The new machines helped to improve the productivity of each worker. However, industrialisation also involved the exploitation of new forms of energy. In the pre-industrial economy, most machinery was powered by human muscle, by animals, by wood-burning or by water-power. With industrialisation these sources of fuel were replaced with coal ...