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Sir David Attenborough to lead opening celebrations for new Creswell Crags Museum
The new museum and visitors centre at Creswell Crags - Britain's most important Ice Age archaeological site - will be officially opened to the public on Saturday 27th June by Sir David Attenborough.
View the updated section on the Tuareg of the Sahara - the present custodians of the world's largest Palaeolithic petroglyphs. With their help, the ancient rock art of the Sahara, both paintings and engravings, are being preserved.
Stephen Oppenheimer's 'Journey of Mankind' Genetic Map illustrates the 2008 Nobel Conference 'Who Were the First Humans?'. The Nobel Conference XLIV, orchestrated by Chuck Niederriter, Professor of Physics and Director of the Nobel Conference at Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota, USA, took place on the 7th and 8th of October, 2008.
World Heritage Listing - Palaeolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain
Altamira, famous for its Upper Palaeolithic cave paintings featuring drawings and polychrome rock paintings of animals and human hands, is a World Heritage Site. This has now been extended to 17 other caves of north-western Spain.
A Stone Age graveyard has been discovered at a site called Gobero in the deserts of northern Niger. Some 200 graves found on the shores of a vanished lake throw light on life in a once fertile land. Could these be the graves of the artists who carved elaborate petroglyphs such as the life-size Dabous giraffe?
INORA Online - International Newsletter On Rock Art
Latest Issue No.51 now available in PDF format to view/download.
Dr Jean Clottes, Inora Editor
With articles on Late Pleistocene Rock Art in Egypt, Engravings in the Western High Atlas of Morocco, Lascaux, Moroccan Pre-Saharan Rock Art, & Candamo Cave Interpretation Centre.
Note: On our SEARCH/SITE MAP page, you can search the INORA contents.
In conjunction with egyptologist Professor Nabil Swelim of Cairo, the Bradshaw Foundation presents a new section on the pyramids of Egypt. Join us as we explore how these ancient and monumental structures were conceived, constructed and decorated. Discover why they were built, by whom and for whom, and the elaborate steps taken to ensure their survival.
Dozens of tools thought to have belonged to Neanderthals have been dug up at an archaeological site called Beedings in West Sussex, UK, as reported by Christine McGourty, BBC Science Correspondent.
'After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000 - 5,000 BC' by Steven Mithen
Drawing on the latest research in archaeology, human genetics, and environmental science, 'After the Ice' takes the reader on a sweeping tour of 15,000 years of human history. If you have enjoyed the Bradshaw Foundation's 'Journey of Mankind' Genetic Map, this is a 'must read'.
In conjunction with the Journey of Mankind Genetic Map, the Bradshaw Foundation now presents the first in a series of iLecture films which explore the most important migration made by mankind. Together with Professor Stephen Oppenheimer we look in depth at the Journey of Mankind and investigate how modern science has helped shed light on this monumental exodus.
