Faces of the ancestors revealed: discovery and dating of a Pleistocene-age petroglyph in Lene Hara Cave, East Timor

Antiquity ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 84 (325) ◽  
pp. 649-665 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue O'Connor ◽  
Ken Aplin ◽  
Emma St Pierre ◽  
Yue-xing Feng
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
East Timor ◽  
Human Face ◽  
New Discovery ◽  
Cave Art

A petroglyph showing a human face found in East Timor is dated to the late Pleistocene. It recalls ancient Australian forms and raises the possibility of connecting early cave art with the better known painted figures of Lapita/Austronesian art ten millennia later. This new discovery at a known cave shows what precious evidence still lies in store even in well-trodden places.

Palaeolithic Cave Art at Creswell Crags in European Context

2007 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Ice Age ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
Southern France ◽  
European Context ◽  
The World ◽  
Cave Art ◽  
Illustrated Book

Cave art is a subject of perennial interest among archaeologists. Until recently it was assumed that it was largely restricted to southern France and northern Iberia, although in recent years new discoveries have demonstrated that it originally had a much wider distribution. The discovery in 2003 of the UK's first examples of cave art, in two caves at Creswell Crags on the Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire border, was the most surprising illustration of this. The discoverers (the editors of the book) brought together in 2004 a number of Palaeolithic archaeologists and rock art specialists from across the world to study the Creswell art and debate its significance, and its similarities and contrasts with contemporary Late Pleistocene ("Ice Age") art on the Continent. This comprehensively illustrated book presents the Creswell art itself, the archaeology of the caves and the region, and the wider context of the Upper Palaeolithic era in Britain, as well as a number of up-to-date studies of Palaeolithic cave art in Spain, Portugal, France, and Italy which serve to contextualize the British examples.

scholarly journals New Discovery of Late Pleistocene Vertebrate Fossils from the Thimi Formation, Bhaktapur, Nepal

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-75
Author(s):  
Khum N. Paudayal
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Silty Clay ◽  
Sedimentary Sequence ◽  
Pelvic Bones ◽  
Deltaic Deposit ◽  
Fresh Surface ◽  
New Discovery

The fluvio-deltaic deposit of the Thimi Formation constitutes the uppermost part of the sedimentary sequence in the Kathmandu Basin, and is consists of carbonaceous clay, diatomaceous clay, silty-clay, silt, fine to medium grained sand, and thin to medium lignite beds. A 25 m thick fresh surface exposure of this formation at Phaidhoka, Bhaktapur yielded significant number of vertebrate fossils. The vertebrate fossils recovered from a sand bed at 14 m from the bottom of the sequence consist of six teeth. The teeth were identified as Bovid teeth. Along with Bovid molars fragments of limb and pelvic bones were also found belonging to the same individual.Journal of Institute of Science and Technology, 2015, 20(2): 73-75  

New discovery of Late Pleistocene modern human teeth from Chongzuo, Guangxi, southern China

2020 ◽  
Vol 563 ◽  
pp. 5-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanyan Yao ◽  
Wei Liao ◽  
Christopher J. Bae ◽  
Xuefeng Sun ◽  
Yuexing Feng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Human Teeth ◽  
New Discovery

scholarly journals New Biological Data on a Gravettian Humerus from the Cussac Cave (Dordogne, France)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Guyomarc’h ◽  
V. Sparacello ◽  
M. Samsel ◽  
P. Courtaud ◽  
S. Villotte
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Biological Data ◽  
Medial Epicondyle ◽  
Mechanical Stimuli ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
Age At Death ◽  
Control Data ◽  
Skeletal Morphology ◽  
Range Of Variation ◽  
New Discovery

This article reports on a complete left human humerus from the Cussac Cave (Dordogne, France), dating to the Gravettian, or Mid-Upper Palaeolithic. This humerus is characterised by a very marked retroversion, significant intracortical porosity, an unusual morphology and orientation of the medial epicondyle, and a marked depression at the bottom of the olecranon fossa. These morphological features could be related to mechanical stimuli, but this is just an assumption given the absence of control data for many factors (e.g. age-at-death, sex, body mass, degree of asymmetry). Nevertheless, the description of this new discovery contributes significantly to our understanding of the range of variation of known Late Pleistocene skeletal morphology.

The crystallography characteristic of (Mn,Fe)S single crystal

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 898-899
Author(s):  
Jiang Xishan
Keyword(s):  
Single Crystal ◽  
Cast Steel ◽  
Point Group ◽  
Central Area ◽  
Hexagonal Crystal ◽  
Growth Step ◽  
Left And Right ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Fcc Structure ◽  
New Discovery

This paper reports the growth step pattern and morphology at equilibrium and growth states of (Mn,Fe)S single crystal on the wall of micro-voids in ZG25 cast steel by using scanning electron microscope. Seldom report was presented on the growth morphology and steppattern of (Mn,Fe)S single crystal.Fig.1 shows the front half of the polyhedron of(Mn,Fe)S single crystal,its central area being the square crystal plane,the two pairs of hexagons symmetrically located in the high and low, the left and right with a certain, angle to the square crystal plane.According to the symmetrical relationship of crystal, it was defined that the (Mn,Fe)S single crystal at equilibrium state is tetrakaidecahedron consisted of eight hexagonal crystal planes and six square crystal planes. The macroscopic symmetry elements of the tetrakaidecahedron correpond to Oh—n3m symmetry class of fcc structure,in which the hexagonal crystal planes are the { 111 } crystal planes group,square crystal plaits are the { 100 } crystal planes group. This new discovery of the (Mn,Fe)S single crystal provides a typical example of the point group of Oh—n3m.

Newborn's Preference for Faces

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 200-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlo Umiltà ◽  
Francesca Simion ◽  
Eloisa Valenza
Keyword(s):  
Visual System ◽  
Structural Properties ◽  
Sensory Properties ◽  
Human Face ◽  
System Experiment ◽  
Face Experiment

Four experiments were aimed at elucidating some aspects of the preference for facelike patterns in newborns. Experiment 1 showed a preference for a stimulus whose components were located in the correct arrangement for a human face. Experiment 2 showed a preference for stimuli that had optimal sensory properties for the newborn visual system. Experiment 3 showed that babies directed their attention to a facelike pattern even when it was presented simultaneously with a non-facelike stimulus with optimal sensory properties. Experiment 4 showed the preference for facelike patterns in the temporal hemifield but not in the nasal hemifield. It was concluded that newborns' preference for facelike patterns reflects the activity of a subcortical system which is sensitive to the structural properties of the stimulus.

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