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Son trece sitio nuevamente entradas a la list de las propridades culturales del mundo
New Inscribed Properties - 2009
http://whc.unesco.org/en/newproperties/
The following cultural properties have been inscribed on the World Heritage List ....

Sacred City of Caral-Supe, Peru

"The 5000-year-old 626-hectare archaeological site of The Sacred City of Caral-Supe is situated on a dry desert terrace overlooking the green valley of the Supe river. It dates back to the Late Archaic Period of the Centra… Seguir leyendo

35,000-year-old flute is oldest known musical instrument
The discovery, reported in the journal Nature, suggests that the first humans to occupy Europe had a fairly sophisticated culture. The instrument was excavated from a cave in Germany.
By Thomas H. Maugh II - June 25, 2009
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-flute25-2009jun25,0,3533361.story


The wing bone of a griffon vulture with five precisely drilled holes in it is the oldest known musical instrument, a 35,000-year-ol… Seguir leyendo

ScienceDaily (June 9, 2009) — More than 100 feet deep in Lake Huron, on a wide stoney ridge that 9,000 years ago was a land bridge, University of Michigan researchers have found the first archeological evidence of human activity preserved beneath the Great Lakes.

The researchers located what they believe to be caribou-hunting structures and camps used by the early hunters of the period.

"This is the first time we've identified structures like these on the lake bottom," said John O'Shea, curato… Seguir leyendo

University of Florida: Epic carving on fossil bone found in Vero Beach

BY SANDRA RAWLS, CORRESPONDENT
© 2009, VERO BEACH 32963
http://www.verobeach32963.com/news/News060409/060409_BoneCarvingFind.htm

In what a top Florida anthropologist is calling “the oldest, most spectacular and rare work of art in the Americas,” an amateur Vero Beach fossil hunter has found an ancient bone etched with a clear image of a walking mammoth or mastodon.

According to leading experts from the University of Florid… Seguir leyendo