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"Pounamu – jade or greenstone" in Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand; Examples of pounamu taonga (Māori treasures) from the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; First over the Alps: The epic of Raureka and the Greenstone by James Cowan (eText) Photo of woman wearing a greenstone neck pendant; Photo of greenstone ...
The Green Stone photographed in 2019. The Hattusa Green Stone is a roughly cubic block of nephrite standing in the remains of the Great Temple at Hattusa, capital of the Hittites in the late Bronze Age.
El Señor de las Limas, the largest known greenstone sculpture, Xalapa Museum Greenstone staff, 1550 - 1600 AD, from the Tairona culture of present-day Colombia.. Greenstone is a common generic term for valuable, green-hued minerals and metamorphosed igneous rocks and stones which early cultures used in the fashioning of hardstone carvings such as jewelry, statuettes, ritual tools, and various ...
Greenstone (archaeology), various types of stone used by early cultures, covering jade and similar stones Greenstone belt , Archean and Proterozoic volcanic–sedimentary rock sequences Isle Royale greenstone Chlorastrolite, found in the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan and Isle Royale in the US
Te Wāhipounamu (Māori for "the place of greenstone") is a World Heritage Site in the south west corner of the South Island of New Zealand. Inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1990 and covering 26,000 square kilometres (10,000 sq mi), the site incorporates four national parks: Aoraki / Mount Cook; Fiordland; Mount Aspiring; Westland Tai ...
Leaders of states in the U.S. which have significant mineral deposits often create a state mineral, rock, stone or gemstone to promote interest in their natural resources, history, tourism, etc.
Image credits: Old-time Photos To learn more about the fascinating world of photography from the past, we got in touch with Ed Padmore, founder of Vintage Photo Lab.Ed was kind enough to have a ...
The water cascading down the southern hemisphere's largest greenstone structure represents the tears of endless mourning, and is accompanied by an audio system reciting the names of the fallen. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] There is a touch screen near the Memorial where visitors can search for names of people lost in battle and hear those names read aloud.