Anthropology And Archaeology

Brazil 1985 Ancient Rock Paintings
The stamp set features prehistoric cave paintings from Cerca Grande, Lapa do Caboclo, and Grande Abrigo de Santana do Riacho.

Brazil 1992 Serra da Capivara National Park
The se-tenant pair depicts Serra da Capivara National Park, home to over 300 rock shelters decorated with prehistoric cave paintings.

Peru 2013 Rock Paintings of Chahuaytiri
The minisheet depicts prehistoric paintings of llama at Chahuaytiri, an archaeological site situated in the Cusco Region, Calca Province.

Chile 2014 Archaeology
The stamp set shows mummies from Chinchorro culture, a preceramic culture that inhabited the coasts of the Atacama desert from 7000 to 1500 BC. The Chinchorro mummies were much older than those of the ancient Egyptians.

Uruguay 1967-1968 Uruguayan Archeology
The stamp set shows stone tools and pottery produced by Prehistoric native Americans.

Brazil 1975 Archaeology
The archaeological site of the Ingá Stone is near the town of Ingá in northeast Brazil. A large outcrop of gneiss, 24 m long and 3.5 m high at its highest point, features three main rock art panels. The engravings, dated at 4000 BC or older, were created using a technique of pecking at the stone and then polishing the grooves. The meaning of the carvings remain uncertain, but may allude to astronomy, animals and fruits.

Argentina 1993 Cueva de las Manos Rock Paintings
Cueva de las Manos is a cave and complex of rock art sites in the province of Santa Cruz, Argentina, 163 km south of the town of Perito Moreno. It is named for the hundreds of paintings of hands stenciled, in multiple collages, on the rock walls. The art was created in several waves between 7300 BC and 700 AD, during the Archaic period of pre-Columbian South America.

Argentina 1995 Archaeological Heritage
Set of four, one stamp depicts cave paintings of Patagonia.

Colombia 2010 Department of Guainia
Set of 12, one stamp shows an ancient rock engraving in Comunidad del Coco,

Peru 1974 Archaeology
The stamps feature stone sculptures from Chavín de Huántar, an important archaeological site dated back to 1500 BC.

Brazil 1991 Tourism
Caverna da Pedra Pintada is an archaeological site in northern Brazil, with evidence of human presence dating ca. 9000 BC. The paintings are considered to be the earliest ones in South America and the earliest known cave paintings in the Americas as a whole.

Archaeological findings from Lebanon, issued by Lebanon on February 20, 1969 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), a global organization of museums and museum professionals committed to the promotion and protection of cultural heritage.

- Silver Coin from Byblos
- Gold Dagger from Byblos
- Sarcophagus of Ahiram
- Breastplate of Amenemhat III
- Phoenician bird vase from Khalde

Åland 2025 EUROPA - National Archaeological Discoveries
The stamp features Jettböle clay idol found in 1906. A set of drawings of the clay idol (anterior and posterior) from a scientific study is also shown here.
The first Stone Age settlement on Åland was discovered in 1905 in Jettböle, Jomala. It is one of the most significant finds of Scandinavian Pitted Ware culture (c. 3500 – 2300 BC).

France 2024 50 Years of the Discovery of Lucy
The stamp marks the discovery of a set of bone fragments which represents 40 percent of a 3.2 million year old single hominin skeleton. The discovery was made in November 1974 at Hadar, a site in the Awash Valley of the Afar Triangle, by Donald Johanson, a paleoanthropologist of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

Russia 2024 UNESCO World Heritage - Petroglyphs of Lake Onega and the White Sea
The minisheet depicts a view of the rocky surface on Lake Onega. The stamps show examples of the rock paintings. The World Heritage site contains 4500 petroglyphs carved in the rocks during the Neolithic period dated about 4 to 5 millennium BC.