Soapstone "Nomoli" figure from Sierra Leone (West Africa)

Photo by gbaku

Photo taken at the Sierra Leone Museum in Freetown in 1968.

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उदयगिरी/Udaygiri Caves, Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh

Photo by Raveesh Vyas

View large for detail. Udaygiri caves: 4th-5th cent AD. Technically speaking, these are not actually caves. These are massive carved structures made during the Gupta period(4th-5th cent.). Most of these sculptures are dedicated to the Hindu God Vishnu and his different incarnations. The one above shows Vishnu in the form of a boar. Bhudevi (Goddess Earth) is seen on his shoulder. The story goes... (Visit the photo page for the full description)

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Pots, lids and stone supports for cooking, Southeast Sénégal (West Africa)

Photo by gbaku

Photo taken in 1981 or 1982. Scale in centimetres.

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Me at a prehistoric obsidian quarry south of Riley, Oregon (USA) 1966

Photo by gbaku

Photo taken in the spring of 1966

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University of Oregon archaeological excavations at Fort Rock Cave, Oregon (USA) 1966

Photo by gbaku

Left to right: Theodore Stern, Carol Clark, Steve Bedwell, Luther Cressman.

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Kamakumba Cave, Wara-Wara Bafodia Chiefdom, Sierra Leone (West Africa) 1968

Photo by gbaku

(Rough sketch map of the interior of the cave below) Photo taken February 6, 1968. The cave is approximately one mile north of the village of Kamakumba. The entrance (to the left on the map) runs just off a north-south line. The entrance is about 15 metres long and about one metre wide; the main part of the cave is perpendicular to the entrance and about 8 metres wide. The width of the main p... (Visit the photo page for the full description)

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Archaeological excavations at the Kamabai Rock Shelter prehistoric site, Sierra Leone (west Africa) 1968

Photo by gbaku

Photo taken in 1968 from the interior of the shelter.

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Grave relief of Dexileos, son of Lysanias, of Thorikos. (ca 390 BC) museum of Kerameikos, Athens

Photo by sp!ros

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Cliffs End - burial

Photo by Wessex Archaeology

A cattle skull lies beneath the head of a teenager, buried in the Late Bronze Age. The burial contained the remains of more than 12 people. For more information visit www.wessexarch.co.uk/projects/kent/ramsgate/cliffs_end/

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Cliffs End - skeleton 1

Photo by Wessex Archaeology

The skeleton of a 10-12 year old child was one of the Late Bronze Age burials in a large grave which contained 12 complete skeletons and other human bone. For more information visit www.wessexarch.co.uk/projects/kent/ramsgate/cliffs_end/

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