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Title: In the shadow of Celilo.(Outdoors)(New trails and restored petroglyphs reawaken a spiritual site near The Dalles)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: October 9, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Page: B15

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Chapters: Outline of the Central African Republic, Lengo Petroglyphs. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 39. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Central African Republic -Between about 1000 BC and 1000 AD, Adamawa-Eastern-speaking peoples spread eastward from Cameroon to Sudan and settled in most of the territory of the CAR. During the same period, a much smaller number of Bantu-speaking immigrants settled in Southwestern CAR and some Central Sudanic-speaking populations settled along the Oubangi. The majority of the CAR's inhabitants thus speak Adamawa-Eastern languages or Bantu languages belonging to the Niger-Congo family. A minority speak Central Sudanic languages of the Nilo-Saharan family. More recent immigrants include many Muslim merchants who most often speak Arabic or Hausa. Until the early 1800s, the peoples of the CAR lived beyond the expanding Islamic frontier in the Sudanic zone of Africa and thus had relatively little contact with Abrahamic religions or northern economies. During the first decades of the nineteenth century, however, Muslim traders began increasingly to penetrate the region of the CAR and to cultivate special relations with local leaders in order to facilitate their trade and settlement in the region. The initial arrival of Muslim traders in the early 1800s was relatively peaceful and depended upon the support of local peoples, but after about 1850, slave traders with well-armed soldiers began to penetrate the region. Between c. 1860 and 1910, slave traders from Sudan, Chad, Cameroon, Dar al-Kuti in Northern CAR and Nzakara and Zande states in Southeastern CAR exported much of the population of Eastern CAR, a region with very few inhabitants today. Oubangui-Chari in 1910European penetration of Central African territory began in the late nineteenth century ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5478 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Archaeology in Oceania, published by Oceania Publication on April 1, 2009. The length of the article is 5863 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Dating the Dreaming: extinct fauna in the petroglyphs of the Pilbara region, Western Australia.
Author: Ken Mulvaney
Publication: Archaeology in Oceania (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2009
Publisher: Oceania Publication
Volume: 44Issue: 1Page: S40(9)

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Lur, Petroglyph, Nordic Bronze Age, Trundholm Sun Chariot, Tanumshede, Ale's Stones, Stone Ship, the King's Grave, Egtved Girl, Håga Kurgan, Hassle, Sagaholm. Excerpt:Ale's Stones at Kåseberga, around ten kilometres south east of Ystad . Ale's Stones (or Ales stenar in Swedish) is a megalithic monument in Scania in southern Sweden . It consists of a stone ship 67 meters long formed by 59 large boulders of sandstone , weighing up to 1.8 tonnes each. According to Scanian folklore , a legendary king called King Ale lies buried there. The carbon-14 dating system for organic remains has provided seven results at the site. One indicates that the material is around 5,500 years old whereas the remaining six indicate a date about 1,400 years ago. The latter is considered to be the most likely time for Ales Stenar to have been created. That would place its creation towards the end of the Nordic Iron Age . Excavations In 1989, during the first archaeological excavations performed in order to scientifically investigate and date the monument, archaeologists found a decorated clay pot with burned human bones inside the ship setting. The bones are thought to come from a pyre and to have been placed in the pot at a later date. The pot's contents varied in age; some material was from 330-540 CE while a piece of charred food crust also found inside was determined to be from 540-650 CE. The archaeologists working on the project also found birch charcoal remains from 540-650 CE underneath an undisturbed boulder. According to the Swedish National Heritage Board , carbon-14 dating of the organic material from the site indicates that six of the samples are from around 600 CE, while one sample is from ca. 3500 BCE. The diverging sample came from soot-covered stones that are believed to be the remnant... ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Petroglyphs are images created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, pecking, carving, and abrading. Outside North America, scholars often use terms such as "carving", "engraving", or other descriptions of the technique to refer to such images. Petroglyphs are found world-wide, and are often (but not always) associated with prehistoric peoples. The word comes from the Greek words petros meaning "stone" and glyphein meaning "to carve" (it was originally coined in French as pétroglyphe).The term petroglyph should not be confused with pictograph, which is an image drawn or painted on a rock face. Both types of image belong to the wider and more general category of rock art. Petroforms, or patterns and shapes made by many large rocks and boulders over the ground, are also quite different. Inukshuks are also unique, and found only in the Arctic (except for reproductions and imitations built in more southerly latitudes). ... Read more

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The Jeffers Petroglyphs Site is one of the oldest and largest surviving concentrations of Native American rock art in the Upper Midwest of the United States. The rock face of this site is covered with representations of animals, humans, dream symbols, hunting and warfare motifs, shamanic symbols, mythic figures, geometric forms, and other subjects.

In this book, Kevin Callahan offers readers a well-rounded survey and analysis of the site. He has geared his text for both the general rock art enthusiast as well as the scholar, dividing it into sections on Native American belief systems, motifs and symbols depicted at the site, analysis of the images, as well as a "Frequently Asked Questions" section. The book contains numerous drawings and photographs and a large removable map that can be used as a walking guide for site visitors. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Archaeology in Oceania, published by Oceania Publication on April 1, 2009. The length of the article is 13164 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Dampier Archipelago petroglyphs: archaeology, scientific values and National Heritage Listing.
Author: Jo McDonald
Publication: Archaeology in Oceania (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2009
Publisher: Oceania Publication
Volume: 44Issue: 1Page: S49(21)

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