http://clipmarks.com/clipper/arifsali/date/2008/12/1/http://rss.clipmarks.com/clipper/arifsali/date/2008/12/1/15Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/765CBDE6-3912-4685-B74F-E102903FD464/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/arifsali/">arifsali</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7758986.stm" title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7758986.stm">news.bbc.co.uk</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><B>Rare artefacts from the late Stone Age have been uncovered in Russia.</B></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/image_cache/arifsali/512/E13C0800-C02D-4875-989E-FD9611C768D5.jpg" alt="Palaeolithic figurine (Antiquity)" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV class="cap">The carving has a feminine form, reminiscent of "Venus" figurines found from Siberia to the Pyrenees</DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>The site at Zaraysk, 150km south-east of Moscow, has yielded figurines and carvings on mammoth tusks. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>The finds also included a cone-shaped object whose function, the authors report in the journal Antiquity, "remains a puzzle". </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Such artistic artefacts have been found in the nearby regions of Kostenki and Avdeevo, but this is the first such discovery at Zaraysk. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD class="sibtbg"> <DIV> <DIV class="mva"> <IMG height="13" width="24" border="0" alt="" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/start_quote_rb.gif" /> <B>This collection of artefacts is spectacular in a number of ways</B> <IMG height="13" width="23" vspace="0" border="0" align="right" alt="" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/end_quote_rb.gif" /><BR clear="all" /> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV class="mva"> <DIV>Jeffrey Brantingham, UCLA</DIV> </DIV> </TD></tr></table></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/sculpture/" rel="tag">sculpture</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/archaeology/" rel="tag">archaeology</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/russia/" rel="tag">russia</a></div>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7758986.stmMon, 01 Dec 2008 23:16:35 GMT