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The Alunda moose is a Neolithic artistic stone axe c.2000 B.C. that was found in Uppland, Sweden. It is displayed in the Swedish History Museum. Dagenham idol; Westray Wife; Folkton Drums; Rock carvings at Alta (Norway) – artwork includes images of Bear worship. Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin; List of stone circles
The Stone of the Pregnant Woman before its current excavation. The Baalbek Stones are six massive Roman [1] worked stone blocks in Baalbek (ancient Heliopolis), Lebanon, characterised by a megalithic gigantism unparallelled in antiquity. How the stones were moved from where they were quarried to their final locations is uncertain. [2]
A female figurine which has "no practical use and is portable" and has the common elements of a Venus figurine (a strong accent or exaggeration of female sex-linked traits, and the lack of complete lower limbs) may be considered to be a Venus figurine, even if archaeological evidence suggests it was produced after the main Palaeolithic period.
Scholars have noted its importance in revolutionizing our understanding of ancient women and providing new theoretical frameworks for analyzing them, [1] [2] such as gender archaeology. Archaeological projects regularly uncover surprising information about ancient women on subjects as varied as motherhood [3] to the historical inspiration for ...
Name [1] Type Meaning Agate: Agate (name) Given name / surname Amber: Amber (given name) Given name Amethyst: Amethyst (given name) Given name Azurite: Azura (given name) Given name Beryl: Beryl (given name) Given name Heliodor Given name / surname It is a given and surname. [2] [3] Heliodor is a specimen of the mineral Beryl. Heliodor has a ...
The women's hands rest on a box-like object which may be a basket. A maize stalk rises on the right side of the basket, through the right hand and along the arm and around the back of the figure's head. This figurine is also thought to represent the connection of vegetation and fertility, female deities and the Earth. [2]
A stone slab covered with 123 hieroglyphic cartouches discovered at an ancient Maya pyramid in Mexico might not be a treasure map to a lost city, but it comes incredibly close.. The discovery ...
Double faced stone head, Castro Culture, today's Iberian peninsula The number three seems to have had a special significance to Roman-period Celts, both in Gaul and on the British Isles. [ 24 ] Three-headed figures are a common feature of Celtic art, especially of Gaulish origin, and according to the archaeologist Anne Ross had a religious ...