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  • Mural painting in Abric number 4 showing a goat pictured on August 09, 2011 in Ulldecona, Serra de Godall hills, Catalonia, Spain. The prehistoric paintings over Serra de Godall hills declared world heritage in 1998 by UNESCO make up one of the most important sets of prehistoric Art Levanti in Spain. They date back to Post-Paleolithic time, more than 8000 years ago. These scenes represent the first narrations in European prehistory. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mural painting in Abric number 1 showing details a hunting scene with a hunter with bow ans arrow in front of a deer, and on the top, probably the high priest of the hunting group, pictured on August 09, 2011 in Ulldecona, Serra de Godall hills, Catalonia, Spain. The prehistoric paintings over Serra de Godall hills declared world heritage in 1998 by UNESCO make up one of the most important sets of prehistoric Art Levanti in Spain. They date back to Post-Paleolithic time, more than 8000 years ago. These scenes represent the first narrations in European prehistory. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mural painting in Abric number 1 showing a detail of a hunter with bow and arrow in the middle of a hunting scene pictured on August 09, 2011 in Ulldecona, Serra de Godall hills, Catalonia, Spain. The prehistoric paintings over Serra de Godall hills declared world heritage in 1998 by UNESCO make up one of the most important sets of prehistoric Art Levanti in Spain. They date back to Post-Paleolithic time, more than 8000 years ago. These scenes represent the first narrations in European prehistory. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mural painting in Abric number 1 showing a woman (middle of the picture) with a wounded big game above and hunters on the left of the picture, on August 09, 2011 in Ulldecona, Serra de Godall hills, Catalonia, Spain. The prehistoric paintings over Serra de Godall hills declared world heritage in 1998 by UNESCO make up one of the most important sets of prehistoric Art Levanti in Spain. They date back to Post-Paleolithic time, more than 8000 years ago. These scenes represent the first narrations in European prehistory. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mural painting in Abric number 1 showing a hunting scene pictured on August 09, 2011 in Ulldecona, Serra de Godall hills, Catalonia, Spain. The prehistoric paintings over Serra de Godall hills declared world heritage in 1998 by UNESCO make up one of the most important sets of prehistoric Art Levanti in Spain. They date back to Post-Paleolithic time, more than 8000 years ago. These scenes represent the first narrations in European prehistory. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mural painting in Abric number 1 showing a woman (left the picture) with a wounded big game above, hunters and a deer on the right of the picture, pictured on August 09, 2011 in Ulldecona, Serra de Godall hills, Catalonia, Spain. The prehistoric paintings over Serra de Godall hills declared world heritage in 1998 by UNESCO make up one of the most important sets of prehistoric Art Levanti in Spain. They date back to Post-Paleolithic time, more than 8000 years ago. These scenes represent the first narrations in European prehistory. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Scene of hunter in prehistoric times carrying a dead boar on his shoulders. Image taken from the filming of 'Paris la ville a remonter le temps' written by Carlo de Boutiny and Alain Zenou, directed by Xavier Lefebvre, a Gedeon Programmes production. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Scene of a hunter holding a spear in prehistoric times. Image taken from the filming of 'Paris la ville a remonter le temps' written by Carlo de Boutiny and Alain Zenou, directed by Xavier Lefebvre, a Gedeon Programmes production. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Reconstruction of a prehistoric canoe made from a hollowed out tree trunk. Image taken from the filming of 'Paris la ville a remonter le temps' written by Carlo de Boutiny and Alain Zenou, directed by Xavier Lefebvre, a Gedeon Programmes production. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Scene of men hunting with spears in prehistoric times. Image taken from the filming of 'Paris la ville a remonter le temps' written by Carlo de Boutiny and Alain Zenou, directed by Xavier Lefebvre, a Gedeon Programmes production. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Scene of men in prehistoric times at a river about to get into a canoe made from a hollowed out tree trunk. Image taken from the filming of 'Paris la ville a remonter le temps' written by Carlo de Boutiny and Alain Zenou, directed by Xavier Lefebvre, a Gedeon Programmes production. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Scene of a man in prehistoric times rowing with an oar in a canoe made from a hollowed out tree trunk. Image taken from the filming of 'Paris la ville a remonter le temps' written by Carlo de Boutiny and Alain Zenou, directed by Xavier Lefebvre, a Gedeon Programmes production. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Scene of hunter in prehistoric times carrying a dead boar on his shoulders. Image taken from the filming of 'Paris la ville a remonter le temps' written by Carlo de Boutiny and Alain Zenou, directed by Xavier Lefebvre, a Gedeon Programmes production. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Scene of men hunting with spears in prehistoric times. Image taken from the filming of 'Paris la ville a remonter le temps' written by Carlo de Boutiny and Alain Zenou, directed by Xavier Lefebvre, a Gedeon Programmes production. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Scene of hunter in prehistoric times carrying a dead boar on his shoulders. Image taken from the filming of 'Paris la ville a remonter le temps' written by Carlo de Boutiny and Alain Zenou, directed by Xavier Lefebvre, a Gedeon Programmes production. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Scene of men hunting with spears in prehistoric times. Image taken from the filming of 'Paris la ville a remonter le temps' written by Carlo de Boutiny and Alain Zenou, directed by Xavier Lefebvre, a Gedeon Programmes production. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Scene of men hunting with spears in prehistoric times. Image taken from the filming of 'Paris la ville a remonter le temps' written by Carlo de Boutiny and Alain Zenou, directed by Xavier Lefebvre, a Gedeon Programmes production. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Scene of men hunting with spears in prehistoric times. Image taken from the filming of 'Paris la ville a remonter le temps' written by Carlo de Boutiny and Alain Zenou, directed by Xavier Lefebvre, a Gedeon Programmes production. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Scene of a hunter about to throw a spear in prehistoric times. Image taken from the filming of 'Paris la ville a remonter le temps' written by Carlo de Boutiny and Alain Zenou, directed by Xavier Lefebvre, a Gedeon Programmes production. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Serra de Godall hills pictured on August 09, 2011 in Ulldecona, Catalonia, Spain. The prehistoric paintings over Serra de Godall hills declared world heritage in 1998 by UNESCO make up one of the most important sets of prehistoric Art Levanti in Spain. They date back to Post-Paleolithic time, more than 8000 years ago. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Serra de Godall hills, Ulldecona, Montsia, Tarragona, Spain. The prehistoric paintings over Serra de Godall hills declared world heritage in 1998 by UNESCO make up one of the most important sets of prehistoric Art Levanti in Spain. They date back to Post-Paleolithic time, more than 8000 years ago. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • SAVEOCK WATER, CORNWALL, ENGLAND - AUGUST 03: A general view of the ruins of an extensive prehistoric building on August 3, 2008 in Saveock Water, Cornwall, England. Excavations here are led by archaeologist Jacqui Wood. Her team has not yet excavated this building. (Photo by Manuel Cohen)
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  • Wild goat, prehistoric rock painting, c. 8000 - 6000 BC, at the Cuevas de la Arana, Bicorp, Valencia, Spain. The Cuevas de la Arana are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Figures and zigzag lines, prehistoric rock painting, c. 8000 - 6000 BC, at the Cuevas de la Arana, Bicorp, Valencia, Spain. The Cuevas de la Arana are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Hunting scene with men and wild goats, prehistoric rock painting, c. 8000 - 6000 BC, at the Cuevas de la Arana, Bicorp, Valencia, Spain. The Cuevas de la Arana are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • 'Bicorp Man', a man climbing lianas to collect honey from wild bees, prehistoric rock painting, c. 8000 - 6000 BC, at the Cuevas de la Arana, Bicorp, Valencia, Spain. The Cuevas de la Arana are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • 'Bicorp Man', a man climbing lianas to collect honey from wild bees, prehistoric rock painting, c. 8000 - 6000 BC, at the Cuevas de la Arana, Bicorp, Valencia, Spain. The Cuevas de la Arana are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the  Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Three figures, prehistoric rock painting, c. 8000 - 6000 BC, at the Cuevas de la Arana, Bicorp, Valencia, Spain. The Cuevas de la Arana are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Deer, prehistoric rock painting, c. 8000 - 6000 BC, at the Cuevas de la Arana, Bicorp, Valencia, Spain. The Cuevas de la Arana are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Wild goat and deer, prehistoric rock painting, c. 8000 - 6000 BC, at the Cuevas de la Arana, Bicorp, Valencia, Spain. The Cuevas de la Arana are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Hunting scene with men firing bows and arrows at wild goat, and a wounded goat, prehistoric rock painting, c. 8000 - 6000 BC, at the Cuevas de la Arana, Bicorp, Valencia, Spain. The Cuevas de la Arana are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • 'Bicorp Man', a man climbing lianas to collect honey from wild bees, drawing based on a prehistoric rock painting, c. 6000 BC, at the Cuevas de la Arana, at the Ecomuseo Bicorp, Valencia, Spain. The Bicorp Ecomuseum is a Heritage Interpretation Centre exploring the landscape, history and heritage of the surrounding area, including the cave paintings in the nearby Cuevas de la Arana and the Barranco Moreno, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Conservation room, storing fragments excavated at the Caune de l'Arago or La grotte de Tautavel, at the Centre Europeen de Recherches Prehistoriques (CERP) at the Musee de Tautavel - Centre Europeen de Prehistoire, Tautavel, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. The Arago Cave, in a limestone cliff in the Gorges du Gouleyrous in the Corbieres Massif, contains the remains of the Tautavel Man, a subspecies of Homo Erectus, 450,000 years old, along with further evidence of stone age activity. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Homo erectus carrying an animal killed hunting, model in the Musee de Tautavel - Centre Europeen de Prehistoire, Tautavel, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. The museum houses the Centre Europeen de Recherches Prehistoriques (CERP), who work on the excavations at the Caune de l'Arago or La grotte de Tautavel, or Arago Cave, in a limestone cliff in the Gorges du Gouleyrous in the Corbieres Massif, which contains the remains of the Tautavel Man, a subspecies of Homo Erectus, 450,000 years old, along with further evidence of stone age activity. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Cyril Calvet, assistant heritage conservator, holding an animal skull in the Collection Room, storing fragments excavated at the Caune de l'Arago or La grotte de Tautavel, at the Centre Europeen de Recherches Prehistoriques (CERP) at the Musee de Tautavel - Centre Europeen de Prehistoire, Tautavel, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. The Arago Cave, in a limestone cliff in the Gorges du Gouleyrous in the Corbieres Massif, contains the remains of the Tautavel Man, a subspecies of Homo Erectus, 450,000 years old, along with further evidence of stone age activity. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Homo erectus making fire with flint, model in the Musee de Tautavel - Centre Europeen de Prehistoire, Tautavel, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. The museum houses the Centre Europeen de Recherches Prehistoriques (CERP), who work on the excavations at the Caune de l'Arago or La grotte de Tautavel, or Arago Cave, in a limestone cliff in the Gorges du Gouleyrous in the Corbieres Massif, which contains the remains of the Tautavel Man, a subspecies of Homo Erectus, 450,000 years old, along with further evidence of stone age activity. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Casts of animal skulls in a cabinet in the Collection Room, storing fragments excavated at the Caune de l'Arago or La grotte de Tautavel, at the Centre Europeen de Recherches Prehistoriques (CERP) at the Musee de Tautavel - Centre Europeen de Prehistoire, Tautavel, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. The Arago Cave, in a limestone cliff in the Gorges du Gouleyrous in the Corbieres Massif, contains the remains of the Tautavel Man, a subspecies of Homo Erectus, 450,000 years old, along with further evidence of stone age activity. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Box containing skulls of (top, left-right) Chimpanzee Pan troglodytes, Australopithecus africanus, Homo Habilis, Homo Ergaster, Homo Heidelbergensis (bottom left-right) Homo Erectus Pithecanthropus VIII, Homo Sapiens Neandertalensis, Archaic Homo Sapiens,<br />
Homo Sapiens Sapiens, at the Centre Europeen de Recherches Prehistoriques (CERP) at the Musee de Tautavel - Centre Europeen de Prehistoire, Tautavel, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Salle des Moulages or Moulding Room, where moulds and casts are made of fragments excavated at the Caune de l'Arago or La grotte de Tautavel, at the Centre Europeen de Recherches Prehistoriques (CERP) at the Musee de Tautavel - Centre Europeen de Prehistoire, Tautavel, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. The Arago Cave, in a limestone cliff in the Gorges du Gouleyrous in the Corbieres Massif, contains the remains of the Tautavel Man, a subspecies of Homo Erectus, 450,000 years old, along with further evidence of stone age activity. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Neanderthal man, model in the Musee de Tautavel - Centre Europeen de Prehistoire, Tautavel, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. The museum houses the Centre Europeen de Recherches Prehistoriques (CERP), who work on the excavations at the Caune de l'Arago or La grotte de Tautavel, or Arago Cave, in a limestone cliff in the Gorges du Gouleyrous in the Corbieres Massif, which contains the remains of the Tautavel Man, a subspecies of Homo Erectus, 450,000 years old, along with further evidence of stone age activity. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mould of the skull of l'homme de Tautavel or Tautavel Man, a subspecies of Homo Erectus, 450,000 years old, from the Caune de l'Arago or La grotte de Tautavel, at the Centre Europeen de Recherches Prehistoriques (CERP) at the Musee de Tautavel - Centre Europeen de Prehistoire, Tautavel, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. The Arago Cave, in a limestone cliff in the Gorges du Gouleyrous in the Corbieres Massif, contains much evidence of stone age activity. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Homo erectus hunting wolves with a spear, model in the Musee de Tautavel - Centre Europeen de Prehistoire, Tautavel, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. The museum houses the Centre Europeen de Recherches Prehistoriques (CERP), who work on the excavations at the Caune de l'Arago or La grotte de Tautavel, or Arago Cave, in a limestone cliff in the Gorges du Gouleyrous in the Corbieres Massif, which contains the remains of the Tautavel Man, a subspecies of Homo Erectus, 450,000 years old, along with further evidence of stone age activity. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • La Dame du Cavillon, a 24,000 year old female cro-Magnon fossilised skeleton found in the Cavillon cave, Liguria, Italy, in a funeral headdress of sea shells and deer canines, dusted with red ocher, at the Centre Europeen de Recherches Prehistoriques (CERP) at the Musee de Tautavel - Centre Europeen de Prehistoire, Tautavel, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Collection room, storing fragments excavated at the Caune de l'Arago or La grotte de Tautavel, at the Centre Europeen de Recherches Prehistoriques (CERP) at the Musee de Tautavel - Centre Europeen de Prehistoire, Tautavel, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. The Arago Cave, in a limestone cliff in the Gorges du Gouleyrous in the Corbieres Massif, contains the remains of the Tautavel Man, a subspecies of Homo Erectus, 450,000 years old, along with further evidence of stone age activity. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Collection room, storing fragments excavated at the Caune de l'Arago or La grotte de Tautavel, at the Centre Europeen de Recherches Prehistoriques (CERP) at the Musee de Tautavel - Centre Europeen de Prehistoire, Tautavel, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. The Arago Cave, in a limestone cliff in the Gorges du Gouleyrous in the Corbieres Massif, contains the remains of the Tautavel Man, a subspecies of Homo Erectus, 450,000 years old, along with further evidence of stone age activity. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Cyril Calvet, assistant heritage conservator at the Centre Europeen de Recherche Prehistorique de Tautavel, at the excavation site at the Caune de l'Arago or La grotte de Tautavel, or Arago Cave, in a limestone cliff in the Gorges du Gouleyrous in the Corbieres Massif, in Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. The remains of the Tautavel Man, a subspecies of Homo Erectus, 450,000 years old, was found in the cave, along with further evidence of stone age activity. The site is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Musee de Tautavel - Centre Europeen de Prehistoire, Tautavel, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. The museum houses the Centre Europeen de Recherches Prehistoriques (CERP), who work on the excavations at the Caune de l'Arago or La grotte de Tautavel, or Arago Cave, in a limestone cliff in the Gorges du Gouleyrous in the Corbieres Massif, which contains the remains of the Tautavel Man, a subspecies of Homo Erectus, 450,000 years old, along with further evidence of stone age activity. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Panoramic view of Great Mound, Knowth, c. 3000 BC, Bru na Boinne, County Meath, Ireland. The megalithic Great Mound was probably built after Newgrange and before Dowth. Similar in size to Newgrange it is surrounded by 18 smaller satellite mounds and has two passages. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • General view of Newgrange, c.3200, County Meath, Ireland. Newgrange was built by a farming community in the Boyne Valley during the Neolithic or New Stone Age. Originally classified as a passage tomb, it is now recognised as an ancient Temple, with astrological, spiritual, religious and ceremonial importance. The large kidney shaped mound is retained at the base by 97 kerbstones. Its inner passage, 19 metres long, leads to a cruciform chamber with a corbelled roof. The Bru na Boinne complex, made up of Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth, has been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Detail of Megalithic stone carving at the entrance of the mound, Newgrange, c.3200 BC, County Meath, Ireland. Newgrange was built by a farming community in the Boyne Valley during the Neolithic or New Stone Age. Originally classified as a passage tomb, it is now recognised as an ancient Temple, with astrological, spiritual, religious and ceremonial importance. The large kidney shaped mound is retained at the base by 97 kerbstones, some of which are carved  with megalithic decoration. The Bru na Boinne complex, made up of Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth, has been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Detail of carved stone with megalithic decoration, Newgrange, County Meath, Ireland. Newgrange was built by a farming community in the Boyne Valley during the Neolithic or New Stone Age. Originally classified as a passage tomb, it is now recognised as an ancient Temple, with astrological, spiritual, religious and ceremonial importance. The large kidney shaped mound is retained at the base by 97 kerbstones, some of which are carved  with megalithic decoration. The Bru na Boinne complex, made up of Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth, has been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • General view of Great Mound showing of kirbstones, Knowth, c. 3000 BC, Bru na Boinne, County Meath, Ireland, in the evening. The megalithic Great Mound was probably built after Newgrange and before Dowth. Similar in size to Newgrange it is surrounded by 18 smaller satellite mounds and has two passages. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Detail of Kirbstones, Great Mound, Knowth, c. 3000 BC, Bru na Boinne, County Meath, Ireland. The megalithic Great Mound was probably built after Newgrange and before Dowth. Similar in size to Newgrange it is surrounded by 18 smaller satellite mounds and has two passages. A series of kirbstones line the underground passages and chambers with later inscriptions c.700 AD. A mixture of ogham scratchings and more modern alphabetic script, they are antique graffiti. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Detail of Kirbstones, Great Mound, Knowth, c. 3000 BC, Bru na Boinne, County Meath, Ireland, in the evening. The megalithic Great Mound was probably built after Newgrange and before Dowth. Similar in size to Newgrange it is surrounded by 18 smaller satellite mounds and has two passages. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Low angle view of entrance, with stone with megalitic art on the right, Newgrange, c.3200 BC, County Meath, Ireland. Newgrange was built by a farming community in the Boyne Valley during the Neolithic or New Stone Age. Originally classified as a passage tomb, it is now recognised as an ancient Temple, with astrological, spiritual, religious and ceremonial importance. The large kidney shaped mound is retained at the base by 97 kerbstones, some of which are carved  with megalithic decoration. The Bru na Boinne complex, made up of Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth, has been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Detail of the outside wall of Newgrange, c.3200 BC, County Meath, Ireland. Newgrange was built by a farming community in the Boyne Valley during the Neolithic or New Stone Age. Originally classified as a passage tomb, it is now recognised as an ancient Temple, with astrological, spiritual, religious and ceremonial importance. The Bru na Boinne complex, made up of Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth, has been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Detail of two satellite mounds showing of kirbstones, Great Mound, Knowth, c. 3000 BC, Bru na Boinne, County Meath, Ireland. The megalithic Great Mound was probably built after Newgrange and before Dowth. Similar in size to Newgrange it is surrounded by 18 smaller satellite mounds. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • General view of Newgrange, c.3200 BC, County Meath, Ireland. Newgrange was built by a farming community in the Boyne Valley during the Neolithic or New Stone Age. Originally classified as a passage tomb, it is now recognised as an ancient Temple, with astrological, spiritual, religious and ceremonial importance. The large kidney shaped mound is retained at the base by 97 kerbstones. Its inner passage, 19 metres long, leads to a cruciform chamber with a corbelled roof. The Bru na Boinne complex, made up of Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth, has been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Detail of Megalithic stone carving at the entrance of the mound, Newgrange, c.3200 BC, County Meath, Ireland. Newgrange was built by a farming community in the Boyne Valley during the Neolithic or New Stone Age. Originally classified as a passage tomb, it is now recognised as an ancient Temple, with astrological, spiritual, religious and ceremonial importance. The large kidney shaped mound is retained at the base by 97 kerbstones, some of which are carved  with megalithic decoration. The Bru na Boinne complex, made up of Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth, has been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Detail of Kirbstone, Great Mound, Knowth, c. 3000 BC, Bru na Boinne, County Meath, Ireland. The megalithic Great Mound was probably built after Newgrange and before Dowth. Similar in size to Newgrange it is surrounded by 18 smaller satellite mounds and has two passages. A series of kirbstones line the underground passages and chambers with later inscriptions c.700 AD. A mixture of ogham scratchings and more modern alphabetic script, they are antique graffiti. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Seated figure with head ornament in limestone, Neolithic period, 5th millennium BC, from the Cabras Tomb 386 at Cuccuru s'Arriu, Sardinia, from the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Cagliari, Sardinia, in the Idols exhibition, Sept 2018-Jan 2019, exploring 3-dimensional images of the human body created 4000–2000 BC, at the Fondazione Giancarlo Ligabue, Venice, Italy. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Fragments of the circle of Sarsen stones with lintels, Stonehenge, Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic monument, 3050 - 1500 BC, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Circle of Sarsen stones with lintels, surrounding a Horseshoe of Sarsen Trilithons, Stonehenge, Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic monument, 3050 - 1500 BC, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Iberian site with ruins of a necropolis, workshops and fortified village, at Coll del Moro, also used as an observatory of the rebel command during the Battle of the Ebro in 1938, the fall of the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, at Gandesa, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. The site offers a panoramic view of Corbera d'Ebre, Horta de Sant Joan and the Cavalls and Pandols mountain ranges. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Naveta d'Es Tudons, a megalithic chamber tomb in limestone, built c.1200 BC and abandoned 750 BC, in Es Tudons, Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. The naveta, used for ancient burial rituals, is boat-shaped and has 2 storeys, the lower chamber used for storing bones of bodies and the upper chamber for drying corpses. It was excavated and restored by Lluis Pericot Garcia in 1959-60. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Kneeling youth with dark body, chlorite limestone sculpture by the Oxus Culture, 2200-1800 BC, from Eastern Iran, from a private collection, in the Idols exhibition, Sept 2018-Jan 2019, exploring 3-dimensional images of the human body created 4000–2000 BC, at the Fondazione Giancarlo Ligabue, Venice, Italy. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Standing steatopygous figure in red sandstone, 4th millennium BC, from Southwest Arabia, from a private collection, in the Idols exhibition, Sept 2018-Jan 2019, exploring 3-dimensional images of the human body created 4000–2000 BC, at the Fondazione Giancarlo Ligabue, Venice, Italy. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Reclining pregnant figure in marble, late Spedos type, early Cycladic II period 2700-2300 BC, from the Cyclades, from a private collection, in the Idols exhibition, Sept 2018-Jan 2019, exploring 3-dimensional images of the human body created 4000–2000 BC, at the Fondazione Giancarlo Ligabue, Venice, Italy. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Female geometric figure in marble, early Chalcolithic period, 4th millennium BC, from Turriga, Sardinia, Italy, from the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Cagliari, Sardinia, in the Idols exhibition, Sept 2018-Jan 2019, exploring 3-dimensional images of the human body created 4000–2000 BC, at the Fondazione Giancarlo Ligabue, Venice, Italy. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Standing stone from one of the Avebury stone circles, constructed in the 3rd millennium BC, in the Neolithic era, at Avebury, Wiltshire, England.  The stone circles and henge are thought to have a religious or ritual purpose. The site is managed by the National Trust and is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Some people say the monument was built in mediaeval times to commemorate the last battle of the legendary King Arthur, and that his warriors are buried there. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Horseshoe of Sarsen Trilithons (fragment), Stonehenge, Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic monument, 3050 - 1500 BC, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Excavations with bones from animals hunted, cut into pieces and eaten, in the Caune de l'Arago or La grotte de Tautavel, or Arago Cave, in a limestone cliff in the Gorges du Gouleyrous in the Corbieres Massif, in Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. The remains of the Tautavel Man, a subspecies of Homo Erectus, 450,000 years old, was found in the cave, along with further evidence of stone age activity. The site is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Caune de l'Arago or La grotte de Tautavel, or Arago Cave, in a limestone cliff in the Gorges du Gouleyrous in the Corbieres Massif, in Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. The remains of the Tautavel Man, a subspecies of Homo Erectus, 450,000 years old, was found in the cave, along with further evidence of stone age activity. The site is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Entrance to the Caune de l'Arago or Arago Cave, in a limestone cliff in the Gorges du Gouleyrous in the Corbieres Massif, in Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. The remains of the Tautavel Man, a subspecies of Homo Erectus, 450,000 years old, was found in the cave, along with further evidence of stone age activity. The site is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Iberian site with ruins of a necropolis, workshops and fortified village, aerial view, at Coll del Moro, also used as an observatory of the rebel command during the Battle of the Ebro in 1938, the fall of the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, at Gandesa, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. The site offers a panoramic view of Corbera d'Ebre, Horta de Sant Joan and the Cavalls and Pandols mountain ranges. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Torre d’en Galmes, aerial view, a pre-Talayotic site occupied c. 1400 BC - 2nd century AD, in Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. This was the largest settlement in the Balearic Islands and has many stone houses, enclosures, water collection systems, aqueducts and talayots or fortresses. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Torre d’en Galmes, aerial view, a pre-Talayotic site occupied c. 1400 BC - 2nd century AD, in Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. This was the largest settlement in the Balearic Islands and has many stone houses, enclosures, water collection systems, aqueducts and talayots or fortresses. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Kneeling youth offering a vase, gypsum alabaster sculpture by the Oxus Culture, c. 2200-1800 BC, from Eastern Iran, from a private collection, in the Idols exhibition, Sept 2018-Jan 2019, exploring 3-dimensional images of the human body created 4000–2000 BC, at the Fondazione Giancarlo Ligabue, Venice, Italy. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Standing steatopygous figure, marble, 4th millennium BC from Southwest Arabia, from a private collection, in the Idols exhibition, Sept 2018-Jan 2019, exploring 3-dimensional images of the human body created 4000–2000 BC, at the Fondazione Giancarlo Ligabue, Venice, Italy. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Standing male figure in black stone, possibly basalt, 4th millennium BC, from Southwest Arabia, from a private collection, in the Idols exhibition, Sept 2018-Jan 2019, exploring 3-dimensional images of the human body created 4000–2000 BC, at the Fondazione Giancarlo Ligabue, Venice, Italy. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Standing nude 'priest king' in limestone, Uruk period, c. 3300-3200 BC, from Southern Mesopotamia, from the Museo Archeologico in Padua, in the Idols exhibition, Sept 2018-Jan 2019, exploring 3-dimensional images of the human body created 4000–2000 BC, at the Fondazione Giancarlo Ligabue, Venice, Italy. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Red polished 2 necked plank shaped figurine in terracotta, middle Bronze Age I, 2000-1850 BC, from Deneia, Cyprus, from the Department of Antiquities, Nicosia, Cyprus, in the Idols exhibition, Sept 2018-Jan 2019, exploring 3-dimensional images of the human body created 4000–2000 BC, at the Fondazione Giancarlo Ligabue, Venice, Italy. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Reclining female figure in marble, late Spedos type, early Cycladic II period, 2700-2300 BC, from the Cyclades, from a private collection, in the Idols exhibition, Sept 2018-Jan 2019, exploring 3-dimensional images of the human body created 4000–2000 BC, at the Fondazione Giancarlo Ligabue, Venice, Italy. Picture by Manuel Cohen
    LC19_ITALY_MC_036.jpg
  • Reclining pregnant figures in marble, late Spedos type, early Cycladic II period 2700-2300 BC, from the Cyclades, from a private collection, in the Idols exhibition, Sept 2018-Jan 2019, exploring 3-dimensional images of the human body created 4000–2000 BC, at the Fondazione Giancarlo Ligabue, Venice, Italy. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Disk idol in gypsum alabaster, Kultepe type, early Bronze Age III, 2300-2000 BC, from Cappadocia, Anatolia, from the Ligabue collection, in the Idols exhibition, Sept 2018-Jan 2019, exploring 3-dimensional images of the human body created 4000–2000 BC, at the Fondazione Giancarlo Ligabue, Venice, Italy. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Female geometric figure in marble, early Chalcolithic period, 4th millennium BC, from the Domus de Janas necropolis, Porto Ferro, Sardinia, Italy, from the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Cagliari, Sardinia, in the Idols exhibition, Sept 2018-Jan 2019, exploring 3-dimensional images of the human body created 4000–2000 BC, at the Fondazione Giancarlo Ligabue, Venice, Italy. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Trepuco archaeological site, a talayotic settlement situated near Mahon, Southwest of Es Castell, in Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. Trepuco was a large village of around 50,000 square metres, and its remains include talayots or watchtowers, a perimeter wall, two square towers and a taula. The taula, with vertical stone pillars and a horizontal stone table on top, was built 800-450 BC. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Menec standing stones, 11 converging alignments of 1050 menhirs stretching for 1,165x100m, near the village of Carnac, Morbihan, Brittany, France. The alignments are roughly parallel with evenly spaced megaliths which are larger at the Western end and smaller at the Eastern end. The Carnac stones were erected in the Neolithic period by pre-Celtic breton peoples. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Kermario standing stones, large megaliths in a fan arrangement, with 1029 menhirs in 10 alignments, about 1,300m long, near the village of Carnac, Morbihan, Brittany, France. One 3m high menhir forms part of the Manio tertre tumulus. The Carnac stones were erected in the Neolithic period by pre-Celtic breton peoples. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Kermario standing stones, large megaliths in a fan arrangement, with 1029 menhirs in 10 alignments, about 1,300m long, near the village of Carnac, Morbihan, Brittany, France. One 3m high menhir forms part of the Manio tertre tumulus. The Carnac stones were erected in the Neolithic period by pre-Celtic breton peoples. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Deer hunting, facsimile of a neolithic cave painting from the Cueva del Tio Garroso, Alarcon, Teruel, in the Archaeological Museum of Ubeda, Ubeda, Jaen, Andalusia, Spain. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Standing stone from one of the Avebury stone circles, constructed in the 3rd millennium BC, in the Neolithic era, at Avebury, Wiltshire, England. The stone circles and henge are thought to have a religious or ritual purpose. The site is managed by the National Trust and is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Some people say the monument was built in mediaeval times to commemorate the last battle of the legendary King Arthur, and that his warriors are buried there. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Standing stone from one of the Avebury stone circles, constructed in the 3rd millennium BC, in the Neolithic era, at Avebury, Wiltshire, England. The stone circles and henge are thought to have a religious or ritual purpose. The site is managed by the National Trust and is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Some people say the monument was built in mediaeval times to commemorate the last battle of the legendary King Arthur, and that his warriors are buried there. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Petroglyphs depicting hunting scenes on a cliff face at Wadi Rum, Jordan. Here we see men with camels hunting various animals. Thamudic, Nabataean and Arabic inscriptions testify to widespread literacy in these peoples. In Wadi Rum there are 25,000 rock carvings and 20,000 inscriptions produced over 12,000 years of habitation, from Neolithic to Nabataean. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Petroglyphs depicting hunting scenes on a cliff face at Wadi Rum, Jordan. Here we see a camel and an inscription. Thamudic, Nabataean and Arabic inscriptions testify to widespread literacy in these peoples. In Wadi Rum there are 25,000 rock carvings and 20,000 inscriptions produced over 12,000 years of habitation, from Neolithic to Nabataean. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Petroglyphs depicting people, footprints and an antelope etched into the walls of Khazali Canyon, Wadi Rum, Jordan. These rock engravings date from Thamudic times and are accompanied by inscriptions, 4th century BC - 4th century AD. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Petroglyphs depicting hunting scenes on a cliff face at Wadi Rum, Jordan. Here we see men with camels hunting various animals (ostriches, gazelles, lions, etc). Thamudic, Nabataean and Arabic inscriptions testify to widespread literacy in these peoples. In Wadi Rum there are 25,000 rock carvings and 20,000 inscriptions produced over 12,000 years of habitation, from Neolithic to Nabataean. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Concrete markers replacing six concentric rings of timber posts, Woodhenge, Neolithic monument, circa 2300 BC, Wiltshire, England. Part of the Stonehenge World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Picture of painting depicting Stonehenge thousands years ago, neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic monument, 3050 - 1500 BC, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Silhouettes at twilight, Stonehenge, Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic monument, 3050 - 1500 BC, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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