Over at Discovery, Jennifer Viegas reports on an 11,000 year old piece of elk antler, found in Poland, that is incised with zigzags:
The artifact will be described in the March issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science. Polish archaeologist Tomasz Plonka talked to Viegas about the find:
“The ornament is composed of groups of zigzag lines [...]
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A friend just visited Zion National Park in Utah and took some amazing photos of petroglyphs in the backcountry. Given that these are carved into the rock, there really is no way to date them directly. I am not sure of the occupational sequence for that area, but there seems to be no reason these [...]
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