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  • Traces of Alpine ibex hunters found in Tatra cave [Slovakia]

    09/06/2022 9:09:41 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 15 replies
    Science in Poland ^ | September 2, 2022 | Szymon Zdziebłowski
    Traces of Alpine ibex hunters from several thousand years ago have been discovered in the Belianske Tatras in Slovakia.Based on isotope analyses, the joint Slovak-Polish research expedition in Hučivá Cave (Hučivá diera), say the traces were found in what was a Palaeolithic settlement left by the Magdalenian people, best known from France and Spain in the 13th millennium BC.Professor Paweł Valde-Nowak from the Institute of Archeology of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków said: “It was a group of hunters specialising in hunting ibex, a species no longer found in the Tatras today.“We found several hundred blades of thrown weapons, bone...
  • A Polish paradise (pictures)

    02/26/2006 11:49:47 AM PST · by lizol · 21 replies · 1,221+ views
    SATURDAY STAR ^ | February 18, 2006
    A Polish paradise February 18, 2006 It added even more old-world charm to the scene. Homes were decorated with holiday lights and religious icons, many of which were built right into the side of the houses. Parents pull high-sided wooden sleds along the streets. Inside are their pink-cheeked babies nested in fleecy blankets, caps, snowsuits and mittens. Look on the corner and you’ll see a T-shirt vendor and someone selling fuzzy puppets on a stick. Look the other way and there’s an old woman in a patterned headscarf selling cheese and pickles. You can catch a horse-drawn wagon ride, mingle...