MAHSA Project · @mahsa_project
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Asoka's commitment to spreading these policies across his empire is considered to be borne from his experience of the Kalinga war in Orissa, where he was horrified at the destruction caused by his own army. Do you think these rock edicts were a good way to popularise his beliefs?
Images courtesy of Wikipedia Commons and World History Encyclopedia.

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Archaeology News :verified: · @archaeology
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Prehistoric rock art reveals Spanish Levantine societies made ropes for climbing

A recently discovered depiction at the Barranco Gómez site in Teruel showcases intricate rope use in Spanish Levantine art, particularly focusing on a rope ladder used to access a beehive.

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Sarah Primate · @LangurLover
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Åsa M Larsson · @Archasa
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At Gothenburg University
Preparations for the launch of the new digital plaform for the Swedish Rock Art Research Archive this afternoon.

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grateful wolf · @gratefulwolf
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Simon · @skatterlings
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11 years late to this review: "psychogeography as it was before 2000: exclusively used and understood in activist/anarchist/left-wing Marxist terms... not by definition a good thing because the overall tone is one of sectarian self-righteousness gift wrapped in academically sanctified forms." From here cryptoforest.blogspot.com/2011 The full text of my contribution to issue 4 of Transgressions from 1998 can be found here academia.edu/13459469/Moving_M

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DomCom · @PrehistDom
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Testing recipes: an experimental approach to paint production processes in Levantine (Spain)

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10

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Albatrossity · @Albatrossity
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Petroglyphs in Coso Canyon, China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station, California. Some of the petroglyphs in this canyon are thought to be over 10,000 years old.

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grateful wolf · @gratefulwolf
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5,32m long fallen cup-marked menhir discovered in northern Portugal : Menir de Fontelo [pdf 14pp english/portuguese] academia.edu/84283059/Menir_de

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Megalithic Portal (Andy B) · @megalithic
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The Castle Gardens Site is located in central Wyoming approximately 43 miles east of Riverton. The name “Castle Gardens" came as the formations reminded the first Europeans of castles and fortifications. The Castle Gardens area holds a numerous examples of Native American rock art, or . Photo and information thanks to our new member AKFisher.More on our page: megalithic.co.uk/article.php?s

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Wisdom in Space · @wisdom
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Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Wisdom in Space · @wisdom
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Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.
-- Arundhati Roy

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grateful wolf · @gratefulwolf
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prehistoric rock art in Norway - Bergkunst i Innlandet [youtube video 14m26s] youtube.com/watch?v=eemvvvCY4f

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Wisdom in Space · @wisdom
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If we horde and hide what we love, we can still lose it. Only then, we're alone in the loss
-- Seth Radley (The Broccoli Tree)

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grateful wolf · @gratefulwolf
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grateful wolf · @gratefulwolf
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A journey down America’s most endangered river - The Guardian (contains traces of archaeology, petroglyphs) theguardian.com/us-news/2023/j

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Simon · @skatterlings
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'An Apport in Merry Oak: Shades of the Cottingley Fairies?' A blog post about the time that a 1921 issue of The Strand Magazine - featuring Cottingley fairy photographs - 'materialised' in a Southampton playground at the time I was writing about Cottingley and related fairy themes thegrammarofmatter.wordpress.c
The relevant document, 'Away With the Fairies: Rock Art and Psychic Geography in West Yorkshire' can be found here academia.edu/39882309/Away_Wit

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Wisdom in Space · @wisdom
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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
-- Henry David Thoreau

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𐪅𐪀𐪈 𐪑𐪁𐪉 · @WahbAllat
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Wisdom in Space · @wisdom
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Ability occurs as a result of a good routine transformed into habit.
-- Francis Cocobos

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