The cave of Mas-d'Azil or Grotte du Mas d'Azil is a large, 500 metre long tunnel dug by the Arize River through a wall of the Massif Plantaurelin, part of the Ariege Pyrenees. Secondary caves leading off the main tunnel were occupied at various prehistoric and historic times during a period of 20 000 years, and the objects found there gave the name of the cave to a prehistoric culture, the Azilian. It was excavated by Edouard Piette in the 19th century, who interpreted the halter-like marks on animal heads as being evidence of the domestication of reindeer and horses. The entry of the Arize which marks the beginning of the cave to the south consists of a 51 m high and 48 m wide hole in the massive limestone wall. A main road, the D119 passes through the central section of the cave.
A furniture conservator decoded the ancient markings indicating animal life cycles and published his research in Cambridge Archaeological Journal.
ANCIENT ASSYRIA AND THE ISRAELITE SCYTHIANS In this particular article we will discuss the history of the “Lost Tribes of Israel” and follow their ancient migrations into every corner of the Earth. After reading this article, you will certainly learn many new things contrary to your current understanding of the ancestral and cultural identity…
Ark Encounter- Cotylorhynchus
While not as big as the T. Rex, the feathered creature was all teeth and claws.
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John Gurche, a “paleo-artist,” has recreated strikingly realistic heads of our earliest human ancestors for a new exhibit
Megarachne (meaning “great spider”) is a genus of freshwater eurypterid from the Carboniferous period of Argentina. It is one of the few eurypterids that is known to live in freshwater. It was originally believed to be a species of giant spider, the largest to ever exist, hence the meaning of...
Danebury is an Iron Age hill fort in Hampshire in England, about 19 kilometres (12 mi) north-west of Winchester. The site, covering 5 hectares (12 acres), was excavated in the 1970s. Danebury is considered a type-site for hill forts, and was important in developing the understanding of hill forts, as very few others have been so intensively excavated.
The Taino purging stick, also known as the spatula, vomitivo, or vomit stick, was a significant tool in spiritual cleansing rituals. Carved from materials like
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A large extinct aquatic duck species related to the pink-eared duck, a small Australian filter-feeding duck species with an enormous fleshy-margined bill, dark ‘bandit’ face mask, a patch of vivid pink over the ear, and bold black-and-white barring on the flanks. Scarlett’s duck was twice as large as the pink-eared duck.
