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The Pleistocene Coaltion: Prehistory is about to change
This is a metasite that links to a series of brilliant websites by John Feliks, Virginia Steen-McIntyre, Sam VanLandingham, and Chris Hardaker as well as OriginsNet and others. These websites include groundbreaking research on Lower and Middle Palaeolithic palaeoart, cogitive representation, and site dating for sites in the New World (e.g., Valsequillo, Hueyatlaco and Calico) as well as Eurasia (e.g, Bilzingsleben).
SELECTED ROCK ART AND ROCK SCULPTURE SITES
Har Karkom, Negev, Israel
Comprehensive description of research by Emmanuel Anati and the Centro Camuno on the hundreds of
Early Paleolithic, Middle Paleolithic, Upper Paleolithic and Bronze Age sites on Har Karkom, proposed
best candidate for Biblical Mt. Sinai
Blombos Cave, South Africa -- 70,000 BP
Gwion or 'Bradshaw' figures, Australian Rock Art
Beautiful painted dynamic figures, minimum 20,000 BP, probably much older
Chauvet Cave, France
A most spectacular and one of oldest dated Aurignacian Upper Paleolithic painted caves
CMCC - Palaeolithic Figurines from Grimaldi
Save This Site
Among the many sites that are facing destruction and need urgent public
support to save them, we have been asked to post the following.
Dampier Rock Art, Australia
Save Dampier Rock Art
Save Santo Domingo, Peru
SELECTED INTERESTING ARTICLES ON PALAEOART
R. Bednarik - Beads and the origins of symbolism
Early and Middle Paleolithic 'Hand-axes'
First Mariners -- How Homo Erectus sailed 800,000 years ago
Contemporary Japanese Stone Art
(This hauntingly beautiful art style seems to follow a million year old tradition)
SELECTED PROTO-ART STONE SCULPTURE SITES
(These collectors show some amazing finds, some of the better dated
and identified artifacts already posted in OriginsNet galleries)
Early Paleolithic Sculpture Art - Pampau, Germany - Ursel Benekendorff
This is the most comprehensive site collection of Paleolithic stone sculptures on the web.
Benekendorff has created a second website providing concise and detailed overview of the Pampau site Vom 'Informationsträgerstein' zum Bilderkatalog' der Altsteinzeit.
Paleolithic Tools and Stone Sculptures - Hertfordshire, England - Richard Wilson
Presents strong case for Developed Oldowan tools and stone sculptures from site with stratum of Cromerian or older age.
Paleolithic Stone Sculpture Images - Northwest Europe - Jan Van Es
Paleolithic Stone Art and Stone Calendars - Kurt Kocher - Battenberg, Germany
Industries Paleolithiques de Wimereux - Charles Belart
"Figure Stones"- America's (almost) Invisible Prehistory - Day's Knob in Guernsey County, Ohio
Site #33GU218 (Ohio Archaeological Inventory) - Alan Day
Drachenloch Cave and related sites, Switzerland, 53K BP - Peter Baumann
SOME PRE-CLOVIS PALEOLITHIC SITES IN THE US
(Believe it or not, the dating is in. One can now search for palaeoart in the Americas and it can't be automatically ruled out because of dating.)
The Paleoamericans: Issues and Evidence Relating to the Peopling of the New World
©2001 by James Q. Jacobs
Cactus Hill, Virginia - 15,000 to 17,000 BP
Meadowcroft - MNSU EMuseum - 19,000 BP
Meadowcroft - Wikipedia
Topper, South Carolina - 50,000 BP
Calico California Early Man Site - BLM
Calico, California - 125,000 to 200,000 BP
SOME ROCK ART ASSOCIATION and OVERVIEW WEBSITES
American Rock Art Research Association
Australian Rock Art Research Association - AURANET
One of the largest and most comprehensive Internet sites on rock art
AURANET/IFRAO Rock Art Glossary
Eastern States Rock Art Association
URARA - Utah Rock Art Research Association
The Bradshaw Foundation - World Rock Art
Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici (CCSP)
EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art - MetaSite (very comprehensive)
Rock Art Links - Worldwide Rock Art Links (Rock Art Net)
Rock Art Net - Worldwide Rock Art Meta Site
The Institute of Archaeomythology
SOME ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY NEWS and JOURNAL WEBSITES
Anthropology in the News
(excellent comprehensive news site)
Antiquity Journal
Archaeological Terms - SMU
Archaeology Magazine
Current Anthropology
SOME HOMINID EVOLUTION WEBSITES
Institute of Human Origins - Glossary, Galleries, etc.
Journal of Human Evolution
Paleoantropologia Paletnologia Preistoria dell'uomo
The Leakey Foundation
Evolution of the Wrist
(Without the evolution of our amazing wrists humans would not be able to use computers, make things using tools, write or play sports. Thanks to Adam in Colorado Springs for this link!)
PROTOLANGUAGE, LINGUISTICS WEBSITES
(On reconstructing the origins of language and prehistoric languages)
Language Origins Society
Mother Tongue - Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory
Santa Fe Institute - World Language Database
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