Anthropology And Archaeology

Romania 2020 Centenary of Emil Racovita Institute of Speleology
This stamp shows painting of a woolly rhinoceros from Coliboaia Cave (Bihor County), dated to 33,000 years old.

Albania 2012 Prehistoric Rock Art
The stamp set features paintings found in the Caves of Lepenice, Boville, and Rubik (4000 to 1000 BC).

Mary Douglas Leakey (1913 – 1996) was a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised Proconsul skull, an extinct ape which is now believed to be ancestral to humans. She also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, eastern Africa. For much of her career she worked with her husband, Louis Leakey, at Olduvai Gorge, where they uncovered fossils of ancient hominines and the earliest hominins, as well as the stone tools produced by the latter group. Mary Leakey developed a system for classifying the stone tools found at Olduvai. She discovered the Laetoli footprints, and at the Laetoli site she discovered hominin fossils that were more than 3.75 million years old. In 1972, after the death of her husband, Leakey became director of excavations at Olduvai.

Centenary of Leakey's birthdays, issued by Togo in 2013. Stamps depicting Mary Leakey and several of her famous findings:

Leakey and a reconstruction of Proconsul africanus:

Leakey and the skull of Proconsul africanus:

Leakey and the skull of Paranthropus boisei:

Leakey and reconstruction of Australopithecus afarensis based on her discovery of the oldest human ancestor footprints in Laetoli, Tanzania:

Leakey and the skull of Paranthropus boisei:

Mummies from different areas of the globe.
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Not only are mummies to found in Egypt but also in various parts of the world.

Here is one from Peru.........

The ice maiden of Peru.
Article by Peruvian TV (in Spanish)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=yzINXVE9L-M

With several others found on stamps........
EGYPT.
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GREENLAND.
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URUGUAY.
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CHILE.
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It is also believed that some of the mummies found of small children high in the
mountains in South America was the result of sacrifice to the gods.

Some great photographs of the world have been taken of various areas where mummies have been discovered by Barry D Kass relating to anthropology and archaeology photographs of traditional and tribal peoples.

As per this next article from anthropology.Com.
http://www.imagesofanthropology.com/index.html

Where you find ancient sites you will find archaeologists !!

French Territory of Afar and Issas 1974 Rock Carving
Balho is a rock art site located in Tadjourah region of Djibouti. The site is dated back to the third millennium BC.

Algeria 1967 Cave Paintings of Tassili n'Ajjer
The stamp set shows Neolithic paintings of cow, antelope, archers, and warrior.

Tunisia 2020 Rock Paintings
The stamp set feature Neolithic cave paintings from Djebel-Bliji and Djebel-Ousselet.

Gabon 1991 Prehistoric Discovery
The stamp set shows Iron Age petroglyphs on rock outcrops along the Ogooue River Valley, at Elarmekora site and Kaya Kaya site.

South West Africa 1974 Rock Drawings
The stamp set features Twyfelfontein rock drawings (10000 to 1000 BC, quartzite tool on sandstone surface).

Botswana 1991 Rock Paintings
The stamp set features the Bushmen rock paintings (Iron Age) from Tsodilo Hills in northwest Botswana.

South Africa 1987 Rock Paintings
16c: Eland and Hunters, Sebaaieni Cave
20c: Leaping Lion, Clocolan
25c: Swartwildebees, Umhlwasine Valley
30c: Bushman Dance, Floukraal

Lesotho 1983 Rock Paintings
6s: Trance Dancers, Ntloana Tsoana, Thaba Bosiu
25s: Baboons, Sehonghong, Thaba Tseka
60s: Hunting of Reedbuck, Makhetha, Berea
75s: Eland, Lehaha la Likhomo, Menkhoaneng ha Moshoeshoe, Leribe

Zimbabwe 1982 Prehistoric Rock Paintings
9c: Human Figures, Gwamgwadza Cave, Mtoko Area
11c: Human and Kudu Bull, Epworth Mission Near Salisbury
17c: Human and Animal, Diana's Vow Near Rusape
21c: Giraffes, Gwamgwadza Cave, Mtoko Area
25c: Warthog, Mucheka Cave, Msana Communal Land
30c: Hunters, Chinzwini Shelter, Chiredzi Area

Swaziland 1977 Rock paintings
The stamp set features Bushmen (San) rock paintings from the western highveld granite areas (Neolithic to Iron Age).
5c: Amimals and Human Figures, Sandlane
10c: Human Figures, Nsangwini
15c: Wildebeest and Human Figure, Nsangwini
20c: Human Figures, Nsangwini

Malawi 1972 Rock Paintings
The stamp set depicts prehistoric paintings from Chongoni Rock Art Area in central Malawi.
3t: Figures, Chencherere Hill
8t: Lizard and Cat, Chencherere Hill
15t: Schematics, Diwa Hill
20t: Sun through rain, Mikolongwe Hill