Germany 1998 – Messel – Full sheet
Italy 1972 – Postmark & Postal card
Ebay (seller – winner): stampbar – jsb1
Price (start-end bid): US $ 0.99 – 3.50
Info links: “Museo Nazionale d’Abruzzo“
Andorra 2007 – La Balma de la Marginada & El Cedre
1) Photo
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2) Links
a) http://timbres.laposte.fr/detailarticle.jgi?index=3&idArticle=1407110
b) http://timbres.laposte.fr/detailarticle.jgi?index=3&idArticle=1407111
3) Informations and Description
a) Timbre d’Andorre – La Balma de la Marginada : 0,60 €
Ref: 1407110
Data d’emissione: 12.11.07
Formato:
30×40mm – Feuille de 40 timbres valables uniquement au départ d’Andorre.
Tecnica di stampa: Offset
Autore: Francesc Ribó
Tematica : Natura
Ce timbre est valable uniquement au départ d’Andorre. La grotte de la Margineda est un abri naturel sis dans le défilé faisant communiquer Aixovall et Santa Coloma. Cette enclave préhistorique, compte tenu de sa situation dominante sur les berges de la rivière Valira, constitue un excellent lieu pour contrôler le passage vers les vallées intérieures.
a) Timbre d’Andorre – El Cedre : 0,85 €
Ref: 1407111
Data d’emissione: 05.11.07
Formato:
30×40 mm – Feuille de 40 timbres valables uniquement au départ d’Andorre
Tecnica di stampa: Offset
Autore: Francesc Ribó
Tematica : Natura
Ce timbre est valable uniquement au départ d’Andorre. Emplacement préhistorique datant de l’âge du bronze, la zone du Cedre est située sur les terrains de la soulane qui se trouve entre Santa Coloma et Andorra la Vella, actuellement recouverts par les éboulis de la chaîne d’Enclar. Les hommes commencèrent à s’y installer vers l’an 2000 avant J.-C. et ce sont des vestiges de leur séjour qui y furent découverts. Le gisement du Cedre comporte sept petites stations, à la chronologie différente, sur le versant de la Soulane d’Enclar, dans la zone de Santa Coloma, dans la vallée centrale de l’Andorre.
Ireland 2007 – 150th Anniversary of the Natural History Museum
1) Photo
2) Links
http://www.irishstamps.ie/IrishStamps/downloads/CollectorsNewsIssue20.pdf
3) Name
150th Anniversary of the Natural History Museum
4) Informations
Product number:072455 - Price: 0.55
| Technical Details | |||
| Date of Issue | 25 October, 2007 | ||
| Value & Quantity55c (.33m) | |||
| Photography | Harry Weir | ||
| Design | Steve Simpson | ||
| Stamp Size | 51.46mm x 30mm | ||
| Colour | Multicolour with phosphor tagging | ||
| Make-up | Sheetlets of 12 | ||
| Perforations | 13.25 x 13.25 | ||
| Printing Process Lithography | |||
| Printer | Irish Security Stamp Printing Ltd | ||
Sheet: Product number:072455SD - Price: 6.60
5) Description
Originally known as the Museum of the Royal Dublin Society, the Natural History Museum was opened in 1857,with a lecture by David Livingstone on his travels in Africa. Since 1877, it has been part of what is now theNational Museum of Ireland. Known to generations of Dubliners as ‘the Dead Zoo’, the museum remains in itsVictorian cabinet style, little changed in over a century.The anniversary of the Natural History Museum coincides with the commencement of a major restorationprogramme to maintain and enhance the historic character of the building. When the building re-opens to thepublic, visitors will notice that public access has been improved and new facilities added for educational activities.The stamp, which was designed by Steve Simpson, with photography by Harry Weir, features the skull andantlers of the giant deer, Megaloceros giganteus, from a specimen given to the Royal Dublin Society by WilliamWray Maunsell, Archbishop of Limerick, in 1825. The antlers are over three metres across and were shed and regrowneach year. These animals roamed Ireland 11,000 years ago and their remains are found in lake sedimentsof that age, which underlie many Irish peat bogs.
Bosnia Hezergovina 2007 – Prehistory: Dinosaur
1) Photo
2) Links
http://www.bhp.ba/en/filatelija/postanske_marke/
3) Name
Prehistory: Dinosaur
4) Informations
Motive: “Prehistory: Dinosaur”
Nominal value: 2.00 KM (1.02 Euros)
Author: A.Šemišić
Date of issue: 15.11.2007.
Sheet of 10 stamps
5) Description
Slovenia 2007 – Archeological Finds – The oldest flute
2) Links
http://www.posta.si/Namizje.aspx?tabid=700&artikelid=9033
3) Name
Archeological Finds – The Oldest Flute
4) Informations
Date of issue: 23/11/2007
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Design: |
Tamara Korošec (Znanstvenoraziskovalni center SAZU, Inštitut za arheologijo) |
| Motif: | Bone Flute from Divje Babe Cave |
| Printed by: | Oriental Press, Bahrain |
| Printing technique: | 4-colour offset |
| Sheet: | miniature sheets of 1 stamp |
| Paper: | GSM 102 g/m2 |
5) Description
The Oldest Flute
In 1995, the excavations of the archaeologists of the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts (SRC SASA) unearthed a perforated thigh bone (femur) of a juvenile cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) from the cave bear bone accumulations of the Divje Babe I Cave Site situated over the hamlet of Reka in western Slovenia. The artefact discovered was later recognised as possibly the oldest flute in the world, dating back to the middle of the last Ice Age, which began 115,000 years ago and ended with a long-lasting warming 10,000 years ago. Slovene and American scientists determined its age by analysing the succession of cave sediment layers containing other artefacts from that period and climate records, and by using the Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) dating. The sediment layer housing the bone flute was thus estimated at about 55,000 years. The last Glaciation was the age of Neanderthal man. Until the arrival of modern humans 45,000 years ago, Neanderthals were the only human occupants of Europe, which means that the flute could only be produced by them. This sheds new light on Neanderthals and their cultural capacity, bringing them closer to our direct ancestors – fully modern humans – who manufactured and used similar bone flutes after their arrival to Europe. While the capacity of modern humans to manufacture musical instruments is an uncontested fact, many doubt that the Neanderthal man possessed the same ability. This is the reason why the Slovene archaeological find, which is 10,000 years older than the oldest uncontested bone flute, unleashed a long national and international debate among scholars, shaking the very foundations of some of the common perceptions of the Neanderthal man. The status of the artefact as a flute became disputable. Doubts were voiced about the explanation of the artificial (human-made) origin of the holes. It was suggested that they are more likely to be the result of natural causes, in particular bites from ancient carnivores rather than Neanderthal construction, which is a complete nonsense in this case. Still, no matter how we interpret this unexpected find, which is admittedly unique both in time and place, it is the fact that it is truly the oldest of its kind, and the possibility that the find could be the flute cannot be ruled out based on the current evidence. Ivan TURK, Institute of Archaelogy, SRC SASA, Ljubljana
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