zidouta.com » archaeology http://www.zidouta.com website van Herman van Iperen Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:38:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Ice Age Art: 35,000-Year-Old Mammoth Sculpture Found in Germany http://www.zidouta.com/2007/06/23/ice-age-art-35000-year-old-mammoth-sculpture-found-in-germany/ http://www.zidouta.com/2007/06/23/ice-age-art-35000-year-old-mammoth-sculpture-found-in-germany/#comments Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:31:28 +0000 HvI http://www.zidouta.com/2007/06/23/ice-age-art-35000-year-old-mammoth-sculpture-found-in-germany/ The four-centimeter long, 7.5 gram figurine, made from mammoth ivory, is some 35,000 years old. It is one of the oldest pieces of art ever found. Der Spiegel:
“In southwestern Germany, an American archaeologist and his German colleagues have found the oldest mammoth-ivory carving known to modern science. And even at 35,000 years old, it’s still intact.”

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]]> http://www.zidouta.com/2007/02/05/paris-a-roman-city/feed/ 0 Why Ancient Greeks are Always Nude http://www.zidouta.com/2007/02/02/why-ancient-greeks-are-always-nude/ http://www.zidouta.com/2007/02/02/why-ancient-greeks-are-always-nude/#comments Fri, 02 Feb 2007 15:13:20 +0000 HvI http://www.zidouta.com/2007/02/02/why-ancient-greeks-are-always-nude/ Dexileos Live Sciense: “Male nudes are the norm in Greek art, even though historians have stated that ancient Greeks kept their clothes on for the most part. New research suggests that art might have been imitating life more closely than previously thought.”

Origineel artikel in American Journal of Archaelogy: The Problem with Dexileos: Heroic and Other Nudities in Greek Art.

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