Ring Mountain Rock Carving in Marin County, California.Ring Mountain was a Native American seasonal habitation and ceremonial site on the Tiburon Peninsula of Marin County, California. The mountain, peppered with multi-colored schist boulders, displays ancient petroglyphs, grinding stone use and Miwok tribe middens. The site is also known for its biodiversity, particularly of endemic rare and endangered wildflowers that are associated with Ring Mountain's serpentine soils.
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Stonehenge Landscape Guided Walks May/June 2008 Stonehenge Landscape Guided Walk
Step into Stonehenge Down and you walk into a landscape, even tread paths, already ancient beyond memory; older, even, than the henge itself. Around the stone circle lies evidence of centuries of labour: enclosures, avenues, henges and burial mounds. Explore the landscape's prehistoric monuments and learn about downland wildlife and hidden histories with a National Trust guide.
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Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park Rock Art in Alberta, Canada. Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park is located about 100 kilometres southeast of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada or 44 kilometres east of the community of Milk River, and straddles the Milk River itself. It is one of the largest areas of protected prairie in the Alberta park system, and serves as both a nature preserve and protection for a large number of Indian rock carvings and paintings.
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Jiroft Ancient Site Ancient Site in Iran. Located next to the Halil-Rud River in the southern province of Kerman, Jiroft came into the spotlight nearly five years ago when reports of extensive illegal excavations and plundering of the priceless historical items of the area by local people surfaced.
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New research suggests Welsh Celtic roots lie in Spain and Portugal Professor John Koch suggests the Welsh can trace their ancestry back to Portugal and Spain, debunking the century-old received wisdom that our forebears came from Iron Age Germany and Austria.
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Kings Lynn Museum Museum in Norfolk. An exhibition of part of the Bronze Age timber circle, Seahenge, is at the centre of a £1m redevelopment of King's Lynn Museum.
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Peacehaven Heights Round Barrow in East Sussex. Archaeologists, racing against time to date a burial mound on the cliffs at Peacehaven Heights in East Sussex before it collapses into the sea, have found activity spanning back to 8000 years BC - the time of some of the island's earliest hunter-gatherers.
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Bagnol Dolmen Dolmen in Haute-Vienne. In the Fromental village, in the Haute Vienne area of France, you can find the Dolmen de Bagnol. An ancient construction like many scattered in France and the United Kingdom dating from the early Neolithic period (4000 to 3000 BC).
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Ancient artifacts found in cave on the Thai / Cambodian border Chanthaburi-based archeologists found scattered household utensils and pottery belonging to the pre-historic period in a cave in this eastern Thai province bordering Cambodia.
Lt. Niran Yano accompanied by archeologists on Thursday explored a cave on Chanthaburi's Khao Noi mountain near the Thai-Cambodian border and reported the discovery of archeological objects dated back 4,000 years.
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Carwood Farm Ancient Settlement in North Lanarkshire. Biggar Archaeology Group have discovered the location of an ancient 5000-6000-year-old settlement site in a ploughed field at Carwood Farm near the town. After only two days walking ploughed fields to look for evidence of the past, an annual Spring event for the group, the ancient site was located.
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