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Human-made shapes and patterns of rocks placed on the ground
Petroforms, also known as boulder outlines or boulder mosaics, are human-made shapes and patterns made by lining up large rocks on the open ground, often
Petroform
Lake in Manitoba, Canada
Whiteshell park have elaborate petroforms that were made by First Nation peoples, possibly over a thousand years ago. There are petroform shapes of turtles, snakes
West_Hawk_Lake
Heaped pile of earth, gravel, sand, rocks, or debris
mounds. Some mounds, such as a few in Wisconsin, have rock formations, or petroforms, within them, on them, or near them. While these mounds are perhaps not
Mound
Legendary indigenous North American creature
Carmichael, Patrick H. (1979). The Thunderbird site, EgKx-15 : a prehistoric petroform and habitation site in Manitoba. Papers in Manitoba archaeology. Final
Thunderbird_(mythology)
Method used to kill bison en masse
Constant Battles: Why we fight Food loss and waste Game drive system Petroform Desert kite A Buffalo Jump Archived November 24, 2014, at the Wayback
Buffalo_jump
Images carved on a rock surface as a form of rock art
belong to the wider and more general category of rock art or parietal art. Petroforms, or patterns and shapes made by many large rocks and boulders over the
Petroglyph
Ideogram that conveys its meaning through its pictorial resemblance to a physical object
§ Pictographic/ideographic writing systems Pecked curvilinear nucleated Petroform Petroglyph Rebus Road sign Rock art Rock art of the Chumash people Sound
Pictogram
Fundamental life force in Algonquian mythologies in North America
Narrows of the lake. Manitoba is also home to Whiteshell Provincial Park's petroforms, symbols made from rocks, which serve as reminders of the instructions
Manitou
Indigenous people of North America
pantheon. The use of petroforms, petroglyphs, and pictographs has been common throughout the Ojibwe traditional territories. Petroforms and medicine wheels
Ojibwe
Archaeological period, last part of the Stone Age (New Stone Age)
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Neolithic
Inuit built stone landmark or cairn
Guardian Cairn Dolmen Herma Monolith Missing and murdered Indigenous women Petroform Rock art Serge (religious) Totem pole From the Inuktitut: ᐃᓄᒃᓱᒃ, plural
Inuksuk
Ancient stone circles in North America
Medicine wheels are petroforms or circular formations of rocks on the land. Historically, most medicine wheels followed a similar pattern of a central
Medicine_wheel
Period of human history before records
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Prehistory
Indigenous religious society of North America
whiteshell (cowry) used in Midewiwin ceremonies. This park contains some petroforms that are over 1000 years old, or possibly older, and therefore may predate
Midewiwin
Motif produced on the ground; observable only from a height
arrangement and alignment of materials on the ground in a manner akin to petroforms, while a negative geoglyph is formed by removing part of the natural ground
Geoglyph
Converging drystone walls in the Middle East, to aid in hunting herd animals
Megalithic Avenue Jawa, Jordan Mustatil, similar formations in Arabia Petroform Crassard et al. 2023. Groucutt & Carleton 2021, p. 1. Crassard et al.
Desert_kite
First epoch of the Quaternary Period
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Pleistocene
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Stone_tool
Land formation on the Croatian island of Pag
left the area with holes. Others have repositioned some rocks, creating petroforms. The formation is one of many polygonal shapes on the broken karst terrain
Pag_Triangle
Peoples who forage or hunt for most or all of their food
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Hunter-gatherer
Earth blocks for construction
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Mudbrick
Crops native to the New World
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New_World_crops
Archaeological site in California, United States
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Calico_Early_Man_Site
Caves in France containing Paleolithic paintings
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Lascaux
Subdivision of the Paleolithic, or Old Stone Age
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Upper_Paleolithic
Neolithic sculpture found in Turkey
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Seated_Woman_of_Çatalhöyük
Place for a fire to heat the home and to cook food, usually of masonry
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Hearth
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Isturitz_and_Oxocelhaya_caves
Earliest subdivision of the Paleolithic
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Lower_Paleolithic
Archaeological site in Turkey
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Çatalhöyük
Aspect of human history
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Control of fire by early humans
Control_of_fire_by_early_humans
European Middle Paleolithic culture
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Mousterian
Calendar based only on the Moon
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Lunar_calendar
Period in Levantine history
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Epipalaeolithic
Fossil site in San Diego County, California
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Cerutti_Mastodon_site
Transition of human species to anthropologically modern behavior
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Behavioral_modernity
Pre-Columbian cultures of North America
gained widespread acceptance. List of burial mounds in the United States Petroform Prehistory of Ohio Southeastern Ceremonial Complex Tumulus, mounds (or
Mound_Builders
Archaeological culture
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Oldowan
Relationship between language and human evolution
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Origin_of_language
Oldest form of prehistoric art
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Art_of_the_Upper_Paleolithic
Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic cultures
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Magdalenian
River in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario
Whiteshell Provincial Park has many petroforms near the Whiteshell River forks where the two rivers meet. These petroforms are an ancient reminder of the importance
Winnipeg_River
Upper Paleolithic culture of Europe
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Aurignacian
Prehistoric period: Copper Age
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Chalcolithic
Paintings, often prehistoric, on cave walls and ceilings
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Cave_painting
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Greene_projectile_point
Religion before written records
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Prehistoric_religion
Prehistoric ivory sculpture discovered in the Hohlenstein-Stadel, a cave in Germany
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Lion-man
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History_of_wine
Archaeological industry of the European Upper Paleolithic
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Gravettian
New World prehistoric projectile
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Clovis_point
Type of earth shelter with ancient origins
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Pit-house
Prehistoric period before metal tools
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Stone_Age
Ancient causeway in the Somerset Levels, England
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Sweet_Track
Prehistoric artwork in the Saharan desert
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Saharan_rock_art
Archaeological site in Louisiana, US
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Watson_Brake
Disputed oldest known musical instrument
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Divje_Babe_flute
Axe specifically designed for combat
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Battle_axe
Tool to give more leverage when throwing a spear-like projectile
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Spear-thrower
Human-made markings on natural stone
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Rock_art
Provincial park in Manitoba, Canada
has many pink granite ridges, cliffs, and flat granite areas used for petroform making by First Nation peoples. There is also archaeological evidence
Whiteshell_Provincial_Park
Room used by Puebloans for religious rituals and political meetings
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Kiva
Neolithic archaeological site in Balochistan, Pakistan
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Mehrgarh
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Indigenous_Australian_art
Set of ten wooden weapons from the Palaeolithic Age
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Schöningen_spears
Paleolithic artifact from Congo
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Ishango_bone
Prehistoric period, first part of the Stone Age
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Paleolithic
Earlier part of the Neolithic period in Southwest Asia
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Pre-Pottery_Neolithic
Period before the First Dynasty of Egypt
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Prehistoric_Egypt
Oldest-known tool-making hominin
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Kenyanthropus
Surgically drilling a hole in the skull
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Trepanning
Old Stone Age musical instruments
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Paleolithic_flute
Original agricultural crops
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Founder_crops
Archaeological industry of the European Upper Paleolithic
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Solutrean
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List of oldest extant buildings
List_of_oldest_extant_buildings
Middle Eastern Neolithic culture
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Pre-Pottery_Neolithic_A
Type of megalithic tomb
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Passage_grave
Late Upper Paleolithic nomadic hunter culture
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Ahrensburg_culture
Bronze Age Europe artefacts
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Gold_hat
Late Bronze Age artefact made of thin gold leaf
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Berlin_Gold_Hat
Period of Arabia before documented history
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Prehistoric_Arabia
Implement used for water-borne propulsion
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Oar
Neolithic culture in upper Mesopotamia and the Levant c. 8800–6500 BC
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Pre-Pottery_Neolithic_B
Archaeological culture associated with Homo erectus
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Acheulean
British archaeological site
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Ness_of_Brodgar
Dolmen
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Grønsalen
Prehistoric period, second part of the Stone Age
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Mesolithic
Archaeological culture
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Ertebølle_culture
Worship of stars and other heavenly bodies as deities
Retrieved 2021-12-06. Bender, Herman E. (2017). "The Star Beings and stones: Petroforms and the reflection of Native American cosmology, myth and stellar traditions"
Worship_of_heavenly_bodies
Special technique to make microblades
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Yubetsu_technique
Stone tool manufacturing
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Langdale_axe_industry
Architectural elements typical of European megalithic structures
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Megalithic architectural elements
Megalithic_architectural_elements
Object that reflects an image
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Mirror
Archaeological site in Armenia
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Areni-1_winery
Small stone-built coffin-like box, ossua or dolmen
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Cist
Long, narrow, specialized stone flake tool with a sharp edge, like a small razor blade
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Prismatic_blade
Act of shaping stone materials
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Stone_carving
Shallow cave-like opening at the base of a bluff or cliff
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Rock_shelter
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Prehistory_of_France
Typological classification of stone tools
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Industry_(archaeology)
PETROFORM
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Boy/Male
Hindu
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Divine
Girl/Female
Tamil
Devahasini | தேவாஹாஸீநீÂ
Male
English
Variant spelling of English Jephthah, JEPTHA means "he opens" or "whom God sets free."
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Indian
Soft
Boy/Male
Hindu
Sun light
Girl/Female
French, German, Greek, Swedish
Victory of the People
Boy/Male
Australian, Christian, French, German, Shakespearean
Elf Ruler; High-born and Bearlike
Boy/Male
Hindu
One of the kauravas
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Elixir
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PETROFORM
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