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Wipperfurt Gogarten in Marienheide

Milestone on top of the Tabor bridge in Vipava, Goriška, Slovenia

Copy of the Roman milliarium discovered in Aiton commune, near Cluj-Napoca, Romania, dating from 108 AD and showing the construction of the road from Potaissa to Napoca, by demand of the Emperor Trajan. It indicates the distance of ten thousand feet (P.M.X.) to Potaissa. It is the first epigraphical attestation of the settlements of Potaissa and Napoca in Roman Dacia. This monument was erected in June 1993 in front of the Turda Post Office (Dec. 1, 1918 Street). The complete inscription is:

Copy of the Roman milliarium discovered in Aiton commune, near Cluj-Napoca, Romania, dating from 108 AD and showing the construction of the road from Potaissa to Napoca, by demand of the Emperor Trajan. It indicates the distance of ten thousand feet (P.M.X.) to Potaissa. It is the first epigraphical attestation of the settlements of Potaissa and Napoca in Roman Dacia. This monument was erected in June 1993 in front of the Turda Post Office (Dec. 1, 1918 Street). The complete inscription is:

Inscription from the Milliarum of Aiton, a Roman milestone discovered in Aiton commune, near Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The milestone dates from 108 CE and shows the construction of the road from Potaissa to Napoca, by demand of the Emperor Trajan. It indicates the distance of ten thousand feet (P.M.X.) to Potaissa. It is the first epigraphical attestation of the settlements of Potaissa and Napoca in Roman Dacia. The complete inscription is:

Milliarium of Aiton, a Roman milestone discovered in Aiton commune, near Cluj-Napoca, Romania, reproduction of a drawing by M. P. Szatmary done in 1758. The milestone, is dating from 108 AD and shows the construction of the road from Potaissa to Napoca, by demand of the Emperor Trajan. It indicates the distance of ten thousand feet (P.M.X.) to Potaissa. It is the first epigraphical attestation of the settlements of Potaissa and Napoca in Roman Dacia. The complete inscription is:

Roman milestone. Photo taken at Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum, England.

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Zero kilometre. Volgograd, Russia

Voskresensky (Resurrection) or Iberian Gate in Moscow

0 km in Vologda

Miliarium I (the first mile sign) for the Appian Way, on the top of Cordonata, the monumental ladder that goes up to piazza del Campidoglio, in Rome.

Prima pietra miliare dell'Appia antica (riproduzione, l'originale è al Campidoglio File:Campidoglio, Roma - Miliario I.jpg)

Description of the Kilometre Zero stone of the Swiss train network in the train station of Olten (near track 12)

Marker from 1856 for the Kilometre Zero of the Swiss train network in the train station of Olten (at track 12)

Monolito que indica el kilómetro 0 de las rutas Argentinas. Plaza de los Dos Congresos.

19th-century postcard of Voskresensky (Resurrection) or Iberian Gate in Moscow

Russia's Kilometre Zero

Kilometre Zero Barnaul

Kilometer Zero, Bratislava

Kilometer Zero of Tokyo City.

This is the Philippines' Kilometer Zero (as displayed at the upper center-right portion of this image), accross a more famous landmark, Jose Rizal's monument in Rizal Park. In the background is the Quirino Grandstand.

Frontier crossing at trail Dolní Žleb (the Czech Republic) – Schöna (Germany).

Statue of King George II (by John Cheere, erected 1751) in the Royal Square, St. Helier, Jersey - freshly regilded 2010

Statue of King George II (by John Cheere, erected 1751) in the Royal Square, St. Helier, Jersey - freshly regilded 2010

Statue of King George II (by John Cheere, erected 1751) in the Royal Square, St. Helier, Jersey - freshly regilded 2010

Statue of King George II (by John Cheere, erected 1751) in the Royal Square, St. Helier, Jersey - freshly regilded 2010

Statue of King George II (by John Cheere, erected 1751) in the Royal Square, St. Helier, Jersey - freshly regilded 2010

Statue of King George II (by John Cheere, erected 1751) in the Royal Square, St. Helier, Jersey - freshly regilded 2010

Metallic plaque on the pavement of the hall of the gare de l'Est, Paris. It shows the

Estatua de la Paz en Plaza Cagancha de Montevideo.

The diamond centerpoint of Capitolio, Havana, Cuba, December 2006.

O camiño de Santiago en Fisterra, Galicia

Budapest

This image was selected as a picture of the day on the Karachay-Balkar Wikipedia for 13th of April 2010.

The National theater in Piata Univesitatii, Bucharest, and a monument in remembrance of the events of December 1989 and June 1990 mineriad. It reads

Belarus, Minsk, Location of the point zero of mapping in Belarus - in front of the Palace of the Republic.

Архангельск, памятный знак «Нулевой километр» на ул. Воскресенской.

Picture stones at Änge, Buttle parish, Gotland

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The picture stone of Stenbro at Gotland.

Scene from Stora Hammar stone

Ancient picture stone showing figures from Norse mythology.

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Hild and w:Hjadningavig. A detail from the Stora Hammar stone an image stone on Gotland

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Bunge Museum auf Gotland. Wikinger-Bildstein

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Bloodeagle in a detail of a Bildstein from the openair museum Bunge

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image stone from Gotland, Sweden.

The Norse god Odin on his horse Sleipnir, featured on the Tjängvide image stone in Vallhalla. It also can depict a killed warrior on his way to Vallhalla greeted by Valkyries with horn goblet in their hands.

Dyce Symbol Stones, Dyce, Aberdeenshire, Scotland - Dyce 1

Picardy Symbol Stone (Aberdeenshire, Scotland) - class I Pictish Stone

Picardy Stone Description. See also http://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/archaeology/sites/pictish/picardy.asp for access to official leaflet.

Picardy Stone Area.

Picardy Stone.

Meigle Museum. One of the fine collection of Pictish sculptured stones housed in the little museum at Meigle.

View of the Sculptured Stone Museum at Meigle, Scotland, displaying Pictish symbol stones from the 8th and 9th centuries AD.

The back of Meigle 7 Pictish stone in the Meigle Sculpted Stone Museum.

Back of Meigle 6 Pictish Stone at Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum in Scotland.

The back of Meigle 4 Pictish stone, in the Meigle Sculptures Stone Museum.

Meigle 3 Pictish stone in the Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum, Scotland.

Meigle 29 Pictish stone in the Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum in Scotland.

Meigle 28 Pictish stone at the Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum in Scotland.

The front of Meigle 27 Pictish stone in Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum in Scotland.

The back of Pictish stone Meigle 27 in the Meigle Sculptures Stone Museum, Scotland.

Meigle 26 Pictish Stone at the Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum in Scotland.

Detail from the top of Meigle 26 recumbent Pictish stone in the Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum in Scotland.

Detail of Meigle 26 Pictish Stone in the Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum, Scotland.

Detail of Meigle 26 Pictish stone at Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum.

The end of Meigle 26 Pictish stone, showing a manticore and a human.

Meigle 25 hogback Pictish stone from the Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum in Scotland.

Meigle 22 Pictish stone from Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum in Scotland.

Meigle 20 Pictish stone from the Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum in Scotland.

Back of Meigle 2 Pictish stone, showing Daniel in the lions' den. Local folklore interprets this as Vanora, wife of King Arthur, also known as Guinevere, being fed to wild beasts after she was abducted by King Mordred and returned to Arthur.

Vanora, wife of King Arthur, being fed to wild beasts as punishment for her infidelity. From Meigle 2 Pictish stone, in the Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum in Scotland.

Meigle 14 Pictish stone in the Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum in Scotland.

Meigle 12 Pictish Stone at Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum in Scotland.

Meigle 11 Pictish stone in the Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum, Scotland.

The back of Meigle 1 Pictish stone in the Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum in Scotland.

Maiden Stone Pictish Pink granite stone cross from about the 9th century AD
Photograph of east face

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Maiden Stone (near Inverurie, Scotland) - back

Pictish stone (front and back) found in Dunblane. Displayed in Dunblane Cathedral. -- Picture taken by me.

Pictish Stones in the Museum of Scotland

The Woodwrae Stone, a Pictish Stone in the National Museum of Scotland

Pictish Stones in the Museum of Scotland

Pictish Stones in the Museum of Scotland

The front of Meigle 7 Pictish stone in the Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum, Scotland.

Meigle 5 from the Meigle, Scotland, a Pictish symbol stone dating from the 8th or 9th century AD.

Meigle 1 Pictish stone at the Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum in Scotland.

The Camus Cross, circa 9th/10th century Pictish Cross

Vault and pendant keystone in church Saint Etienne du Mont, Paris

A keystone showing the Veil of Vernonica in a cloister of Cadouin Abbey, Departement of Dordogne, France.

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A keystone showing a griffin in a cloister of Cadouin Abbey, Departement of Dordogne, France.

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Pendant boss in a quadripartite cross-ribbed vault, church Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul, Aumale, Seine-Maritime, France.

A photo of ground stone discoidals used for the game of en:Chunkey, found at the en:Winterville Site in en:Mississippi

Ceremonial stone mace from Spiro Mounds.

Various artifacts, including a shell cup fragment (#5) and a stone axe (#6), excavated at the Moundville Archaeological Park in Moundville, Hale County, Alabama, United States. Housed on-site in the Jones Archaeological Museum.

Various axe blades excavated at the Moundville Archaeological Park in Moundville, Hale County, Alabama, United States. Housed onsite in the Jones Archaeological Museum.

A map showing the distribution of sites associated with the quarrying, production and distribution by the en:Mississippian culture of en:Mill Creek chert.

A map showing the geographical distribution and frequency of en:Mill Creek chert finds at en:Mississippian culture sites.

A en:Mississippian culture monolithic stone axe, discovered and on display at the en:Etowah Indian Mounds

A diorama showing a en:Mississippian culture flintknapper from the en:Cahokia site in en:Collinsville, Illinois.

Different views of the same specimen

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Different views of the same specimen

Different views of the same specimen

Different views of the same specimen

Different views of the same specimen

Different views of the same specimen

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The Saltley Handaxe, drawn by Sir John Evans in 1897

Hand axe

hand aex flintknepping by entler hamer

History museum of Truskavets

A stone-age hand axe, found in Kempston Bedfordshire, in the stores of Bedford Museum (ref. no. 2002-2.21.8).

Stone hand axe from the Museum of Prehistory of the Hulla Valley (Prehistoric Man Museum)

Tipycal Acheulean Handhaxe, it has tear form and proceeds from a superficial site in the Zamora province (Spain), in the Douro valley.

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German National Museum ( Nuremberg / Germany ). Palaeolithic hand stone axe.

Flint stone tools, bronze age South Hungary - Tisza culture

Faustkeil im Heimatmuseum Bergen-Enkheim

hand axe, found in Poesing, 100.000 years old

hand axe, found in Poesing, 100.000 years old

hand axe, found in Poesing, 100.000 years old

hand axe, found in Poesing, 100.000 years old

Experimentally replicated handaxe made in coarse grain flint from the village fo Mucientes in the Valladolid province (Spain).

Handaxe in quartzite, its comes from the bed TG-10 of « Galería» in Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain) and it is dated circa 350,000 years

Quartzite Biface

Stage : Lower Paleolithic (to - 1 Ma from - 300 000 years Before the Current Era)
Locality : Venerque, Haute-Garonne, France
Former collection of Jean Baptiste Noulet (1802 - 1890)
Different views of the same specimen - Muséum of Toulouse MHNT.PRE.2009.0.198.1
Size : 14.7x9.5x4 cm – 493g

Quartzite Biface

Stage : Lower Paleolithic (to - 1 Ma from - 300 000 years Before the Current Era)
Locality : Venerque, Haute-Garonne, France
Former collection of Jean Baptiste Noulet (1802 - 1890)
Different views of the same specimen - Muséum of Toulouse MHNT.PRE.2009.0.198.1
Size : 14.7x9.5x4 cm – 493g

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Several hammersones for experimental knapping

Several soft hammers, some are in wood and one is an antler billet, for experimental knapping (direct percussion)

Direct percussion with hammersone, knapping experiment

Several antler pieces for experimental debitage or retouch «in the hands»

Flat butt and conchoide of a prehistoric flake in flint

Large biface hoes made from en:Mill Creek chert obtained from en:Southern Illinois, all found at the en:Nodena Site. On display at the Hampson Museum State Park, Arkansas.

Projectile Point found near Wappingers Falls, NY, 1963 Lecroy Point, 9000-7000 Bp Early Archaic Period

Large biface hoes made from en:Mill Creek chert obtained from en:Southern Illinois, all found at the en:Nodena Site.

A large biface hoe made from en:Mill Creek chert obtained from en:Southern Illinois, stone tools made from Crowley Ridge flint and axes of ground metamorphic stone from the Appalachian Mountains, all found at the en:Parkin Archeological State Park.

Maya eccentric flint. Classic Period. Maybe from Copan or Quiriguá. Musées Roayaux d'art et d'Histoire, Brussels (Belgium)

Flintknapping demonstration at the Quarry Hill Nature Center in Rochester, Minnesota

Ceremonial flint blades and chunkey stones

Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument, Texas, USA - Arrow heads made from flint

Protobifaz paleolítico procedente de la región del Sáhara atlántico Guelmim-Es Semara (Museo Arqueológico Nacional de Madrid)

African biface artifact dated in Late Stone Age period

Refitting of a chopper in quartzite, its comes from a fluvial quaternary terrace in Jarama river (Arganda, Madrid, Spain) and it is dated in Acheulean period (Lower Paleolithic)

Canto tallado de tradición Olduvayense procedente de la región del Sáhara atlántico Guelmim-Es Semara (Museo Arqueológico Nacional de Madrid)

Canto tallado de tradición Olduvayense procedente de la región del Sáhara atlántico Guelmim-Es Semara (Museo Arqueológico Nacional de Madrid)

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