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52 relations: António Guterres, Archaeology, Aurochs, BBC, Bronze Age, Campôme, Caprinae, Cave of Altamira, Cave painting, Côa River, Chalcolithic, Christmas, Cultural Route of the Council of Europe, Direção-Geral do Património Cultural, Douro (intermunicipal community), Easter, Energias de Portugal, Epipalaeolithic, European early modern humans, Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo, France, Freixo de Espada à Cinta, Guarda District, Human, Iron Age, Jean Clottes, Lascaux, List of Prime Ministers of Portugal, List of Stone Age art, May Day, Mêda, Portugal, Mounir Bouchenaki, Muzzle (device), New Year, Norte Region, Portugal, Paleolithic, Pinhel, Portugal, Portuguese legislative election, 1995, Prehistoric art, Prehistory, Przewalski's horse, Sanctuary, Siega Verde, Spain, The New York Times, The New York Times International Edition, The Sunday Times, UNESCO, Val Camonica, ..., Vila Nova de Foz Côa, World Heritage site. Expand index (2 more) »
António Guterres
António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres GCC GCL (born 30 April 1949) is a Portuguese politician and diplomat who is serving as the ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations.
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Archaeology
Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of humanactivity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.
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Aurochs
The aurochs (or; pl. aurochs, or rarely aurochsen, aurochses), also known as urus or ure (Bos primigenius), is an extinct species of large wild cattle that inhabited Europe, Asia, and North Africa.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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Bronze Age
The Bronze Age is a historical period characterized by the use of bronze, and in some areas proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization.
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Campôme
Campôme (Campome) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.
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Caprinae
Subfamily Caprinae is part of the ruminant family Bovidae, and consists of mostly medium-sized bovids.
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Cave of Altamira
The Cave of Altamira (Cueva de Altamira) located near the historic town Santillana del Mar in Cantabria, Spain, is renowned for its numerous parietal cave paintings featuring charcoal drawings and polychrome paintings of contemporary local fauna and human hands, created during the Upper Paleolithic.
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Cave painting
Cave paintings, also known as parietal art, are painted drawings on cave walls or ceilings, mainly of prehistoric origin, beginning roughly 40,000 years ago (around 38,000 BCE) in Eurasia.
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Côa River
The Côa River is a tributary of the Douro River, in central and northeastern Portugal.
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Chalcolithic
The Chalcolithic (The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998), p. 301: "Chalcolithic /,kælkəl'lɪθɪk/ adjective Archaeology of, relating to, or denoting a period in the 4th and 3rd millennium BCE, chiefly in the Near East and SE Europe, during which some weapons and tools were made of copper. This period was still largely Neolithic in character. Also called Eneolithic... Also called Copper Age - Origin early 20th cent.: from Greek khalkos 'copper' + lithos 'stone' + -ic". χαλκός khalkós, "copper" and λίθος líthos, "stone") period or Copper Age, in particular for eastern Europe often named Eneolithic or Æneolithic (from Latin aeneus "of copper"), was a period in the development of human technology, before it was discovered that adding tin to copper formed the harder bronze, leading to the Bronze Age.
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Christmas
Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ,Martindale, Cyril Charles.
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Cultural Route of the Council of Europe
A Culture Route of the Council of Europe, sometimes referred to as a European Cultural Route is a title awarded to cultural routes recognised as significant throughout Europe by the Council of Europe through promoting shared culture, history, memory and European integration.
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Direção-Geral do Património Cultural
The Direção-Geral do Património Cultural (DGPC), formerly Instituto de Gestão do Património Arquitectónico e Arqueológico (IGESPAR) and Instituto Português do Património Arquitectónico (IPPAR), (Directorate-General for Cultural Heritage) is a Directorate-General of Government of Portugal tasked with the conservation, preservation, and inventory of Portuguese architectural heritage.
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Douro (intermunicipal community)
The Comunidade Intermunicipal do Douro is an administrative division in Portugal.
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Easter
Easter,Traditional names for the feast in English are "Easter Day", as in the Book of Common Prayer, "Easter Sunday", used by James Ussher and Samuel Pepys and plain "Easter", as in books printed in,, also called Pascha (Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial after his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary 30 AD.
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Energias de Portugal
EDP - Energias de Portugal (formerly Electricidade de Portugal) ranks among Europe's major electricity operators, as well as being one of Portugal's largest business groups.
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Epipalaeolithic
In archaeology, the Epipalaeolithic, Epipaleolithic (sometimes Epi-paleolithic etc) is a term for a period intervening between the Upper Paleolithic and Neolithic in the Stone Age.
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European early modern humans
European early modern humans (EEMH) in the context of the Upper Paleolithic in Europe refers to the early presence of anatomically modern humans in Europe.
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Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo
Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo is a municipality in the District of Guarda in Portugal.
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France
France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.
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Freixo de Espada à Cinta
Freixo de Espada à Cinta, sometimes erroneusly Freixo de Espada Cinta (an archaism), is a municipality in the northeastern region of Portugal, near the border with Spain, along the Douro River Valley.
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Guarda District
The district of Guarda (Distrito de Guarda) is located in the Centro Region of Portugal, except Vila Nova de Foz Côa, which is in the Norte Region.
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Human
Humans (taxonomically Homo sapiens) are the only extant members of the subtribe Hominina.
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Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age system, preceded by the Stone Age (Neolithic) and the Bronze Age.
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Jean Clottes
Jean Clottes is a prominent French prehistorian.
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Lascaux
Lascaux (Grotte de Lascaux, "Lascaux Cave") is the setting of a complex of caves near the village of Montignac, in the department of Dordogne in southwestern France.
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List of Prime Ministers of Portugal
The Prime Minister of the Portuguese Republic (Primeiro-Ministro da República Portuguesa) is the head of the country's Government.
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List of Stone Age art
This is a descriptive list of art from the Stone Age, the period of prehistory characterised by the widespread use of stone tools.
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May Day
May Day is a public holiday usually celebrated on 1 May.
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Mêda, Portugal
Mêda is a municipality in Portugal.
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Mounir Bouchenaki
Mounir Bouchenaki (Arabic: منير بوشناقي) (born 16 November 1943) is an Algerian archaeologist and incumbent Director of the Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage.
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Muzzle (device)
A muzzle is a device that is placed over the snout of an animal to keep it from biting or otherwise opening its mouth.
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New Year
New Year is the time or day at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar's year count increments by one.
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Norte Region, Portugal
Norte (Região Norte,; "North Region") or Northern Portugal is the most populous region in Portugal, ahead of Lisboa, and the third most extensive by area.
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Paleolithic
The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic is a period in human prehistory distinguished by the original development of stone tools that covers c. 95% of human technological prehistory.
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Pinhel
Pinhel is a municipality, former Catholic bishopric and present Latin titular see in the central subregion of Beira Interior Norte, in Portugal.
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Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic (República Portuguesa),In recognized minority languages of Portugal: Portugal is the oldest state in the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times.
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Portuguese legislative election, 1995
The Portuguese legislative election of 1995 took place on 1 October.
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Prehistoric art
In the history of art, prehistoric art is all art produced in preliterate, prehistorical cultures beginning somewhere in very late geological history, and generally continuing until that culture either develops writing or other methods of record-keeping, or makes significant contact with another culture that has, and that makes some record of major historical events.
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Prehistory
Human prehistory is the period between the use of the first stone tools 3.3 million years ago by hominins and the invention of writing systems.
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Przewalski's horse
The Przewalski's horse (Khalkha, takhi; Ak Kaba Tuvan: dagy; Equus przewalskii or Equus ferus przewalskii), also called the Mongolian wild horse or Dzungarian horse, is a rare and endangered horse native to the steppes of central Asia.
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Sanctuary
A sanctuary, in its original meaning, is a sacred place, such as a shrine.
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Siega Verde
Siega Verde is an archaeological site in Serranillo, Villar de la Yegua, province of Salamanca, in Castile and León, Spain.
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Spain
Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The New York Times International Edition
The New York Times International Edition is an English-language newspaper printed at 38 sites throughout the world and sold in more than 160 countries and territories.
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The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times is the largest-selling British national newspaper in the "quality press" market category.
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.
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Val Camonica
Val Camonica (also Valcamonica or Camonica Valley, local dialect: Al Camònega) is one of the largest valleys of the central Alps, in eastern Lombardy, Italy.
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Vila Nova de Foz Côa
Vila Nova de Foz Côa is a city and a municipality in the district of Guarda, Portugal.
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World Heritage site
A World Heritage site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance, and is legally protected by international treaties.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_Rock_Art_Sites_in_the_Côa_Valley
