The recent discovery of animal carvings in the Early Bronze Age burial cairn at Dunchraigaig (Kilmartin Glen, Scotland) prompts a re-evaluation current knowledge rock art Britain. deer and other quadrupeds represented monument are first unambiguous depictions prehistoric animals date Scotland, among earliest identified Britain Ireland. This contrasts with well-known abstract this region, charac...

Analyses of archaeological materials aim to rediscover the know-how of Prehistoric people by determining the nature of the painting matter, its preparation mode, and the geographic origin of its raw materials. This study deals with identification of manganese oxides in black pigments by micro-XANES (X-ray absorption near-edge structure) based on previous TEM (transmission electron microscopy) s...

Recording of archaeological sites has long been studied by many scientific organizations. However, the analyses and evolution of human beings through rock art is one of the most challenging tasks in prehistoric archaeology, not only because of the unpredicted contribution to the understanding of the past but also because of the difficulties for appropriate recording. Tracing, rubbing and photog...

Analysing the colouring matter used to make prehistoric rock art is essential in order retrace chaînes opératoires involved. Despite well-documented limitations of portable analysis systems, need conserve led us reassess capabilities X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) spectrometry. Thus, we compared in-situ and laboratory analyses materials from Points cave (France), pXRF results with obtained using oth...

CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 106, NO. 5, 10 MARCH 2014 655 *A report on Resonance – summer school in neuroscience held at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi from 26 June to 6 July 2013, an allied effort by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, Harvard University, USA and IIT Delhi. continuity of the traditions in the Indian context. Several rock arts are probably hidden in remote pla...

The classical hypothesis proposes that Chagas disease has been originated in the Andean region among prehistoric people when they started domesticating animals, changing to sedentary habits, and adopting agriculture. These changes in their way of life happened nearly 6,000 years ago. However, paleoparasitological data based on molecular tools showed that Trypanosoma cruzi infection and Chagas d...