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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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
River in Ontario, Manitoba
Manitoba, Canada, near the Ontario border. This river is close to some petroform sites that are about 2000 years old or older. The name "whiteshell" is
Whiteshell_River
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
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
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Stone_tool
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
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
First epoch of the Quaternary Period
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Pleistocene
Earth blocks for construction
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Mudbrick
Crops native to the New World
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New_World_crops
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
Prehistoric period: Copper Age
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Chalcolithic
Peoples who forage or hunt for most or all of their food
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Hunter-gatherer
Aspect of human history
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Control of fire by early humans
Control_of_fire_by_early_humans
Calendar based only on the Moon
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Lunar_calendar
Prehistoric period, first part of the Stone Age
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Paleolithic
Subdivision of the Paleolithic, or Old Stone Age
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Upper_Paleolithic
Oldest form of prehistoric art
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Art_of_the_Upper_Paleolithic
Period in Levantine history
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Epipalaeolithic
Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic cultures
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Magdalenian
Archaeological site in California, United States
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Calico_Early_Man_Site
Archaeological site in Minnesota, U.S.
to protect and preserve Native American petroglyphs, pictographs and petroform rock art sites in the present day U.S. state of Minnesota. The Submission
American Indian Rock Art in Minnesota MPS
American_Indian_Rock_Art_in_Minnesota_MPS
Prehistoric period before metal tools
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Stone_Age
Place for a fire to heat the home and to cook food, usually of masonry
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Hearth
Upper Paleolithic culture of Europe
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Aurignacian
Type of earth shelter with ancient origins
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Pit-house
Archaeological site in Turkey
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Çatalhöyük
Paintings, often prehistoric, on cave walls and ceilings
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Cave_painting
Caves in France containing Paleolithic paintings
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Lascaux
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
Prehistoric period, second part of the Stone Age
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Mesolithic
Relationship between language and human evolution
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Origin_of_language
Earliest subdivision of the Paleolithic
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Lower_Paleolithic
Prehistoric ivory sculpture discovered in the Hohlenstein-Stadel, a cave in Germany
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Lion-man
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
European Middle Paleolithic culture
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Mousterian
Axe specifically designed for combat
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Battle_axe
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Isturitz_and_Oxocelhaya_caves
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
Transition of human species to anthropologically modern behavior
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Behavioral_modernity
Archaeological culture
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Oldowan
Fossil site in San Diego County, California
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Cerutti_Mastodon_site
Archaeological industry of the European Upper Paleolithic
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Gravettian
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History_of_wine
Neolithic sculpture found in Turkey
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Seated_Woman_of_Çatalhöyük
Tool to give more leverage when throwing a spear-like projectile
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Spear-thrower
Religion before written records
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Prehistoric_religion
Human-made markings on natural stone
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Rock_art
New World prehistoric projectile
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Clovis_point
Paleolithic artifact from Congo
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Ishango_bone
Archaeological site in Louisiana, US
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Watson_Brake
Neolithic archaeological site in Balochistan, Pakistan
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Mehrgarh
Earlier part of the Neolithic period in Southwest Asia
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Pre-Pottery_Neolithic
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Greene_projectile_point
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List of oldest extant buildings
List_of_oldest_extant_buildings
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Timeline_of_prehistory
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
Ring of standing stones
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Stone_circle
Interdisciplinary study of astronomies in cultures
Cultural astronomy Lunar standstill Medicine wheel Megalith Mound Builders Petroforms Pleiades in folklore and literature Worship of heavenly bodies Aveni 1982:
Archaeoastronomy
Old Stone Age musical instruments
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Paleolithic_flute
Surgically drilling a hole in the skull
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Trepanning
Period before the First Dynasty of Egypt
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Prehistoric_Egypt
Original agricultural crops
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Founder_crops
Dolmen
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Grønsalen
Mound of earth and stones raised over graves
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Tumulus
Neolithic culture in upper Mesopotamia and the Levant c. 8800–6500 BC
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Pre-Pottery_Neolithic_B
Type of megalithic tomb
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Passage_grave
Prehistoric artwork in the Saharan desert
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Saharan_rock_art
Middle Eastern Neolithic culture
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Pre-Pottery_Neolithic_A
Archaeological industry of the European Upper Paleolithic
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Solutrean
Late Bronze Age artefact made of thin gold leaf
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Berlin_Gold_Hat
Ancient causeway in the Somerset Levels, England
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Sweet_Track
Dwelling
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Hut
Implement used for water-borne propulsion
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Oar
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
Archaeological culture associated with Homo erectus
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Acheulean
Disputed oldest known musical instrument
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Divje_Babe_flute
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List of prehistoric structures in Great Britain
List_of_prehistoric_structures_in_Great_Britain
Set of ten wooden weapons from the Palaeolithic Age
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Schöningen_spears
Object that reflects an image
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Mirror
Oldest-known tool-making hominin
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Kenyanthropus
Small stone-built coffin-like box, ossua or dolmen
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Cist
Type of Bronze Age chamber tomb
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Clava_cairn
Archaeological site in Armenia
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Areni-1_winery
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Indigenous_Australian_art
Late Upper Paleolithic nomadic hunter culture
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Ahrensburg_culture
Memory aid device
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Tally_stick
Bronze Age Europe artefacts
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Gold_hat
Proposed Upper Paleolithic European industry
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Châtelperronian
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Girl/Female
Hindu
Poem
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Charley in Leicestershire, named with Celtic carn ‘cairn’, ‘pile of stones’ + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’.French (Burgundy) : from a pet form of Charles.
Girl/Female
Bengali, Celebrity, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sikh, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu
Prayer; Worship
Boy/Male
British, Danish, English, Norwegian
Skin; Parchment
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Who Returns Salutations
Boy/Male
Shakespearean
A Midsummer Night's Dream' Quince, a carpenter, acts as Prologue in the play within the play.
Boy/Male
Sikh
Dominion of majesty
Girl/Female
Hindu
Luminous, Lustrous
Biblical
Hoshea, savior; safety
Boy/Male
Tamil
Devarishi | தேவாரீஷீ
Rishi among gods
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