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Portuguese pavement, known in Portuguese as calçada portuguesa or simply calçada (or pedra portuguesa in Brazil), is a traditional-style pavement used for many pedestrian areas in Portugal. It consists of small pieces of stone arranged in a pattern or image, like a mosaic .
In San José he met Doris Stone, who directed the group toward the Diquís Delta region in the southwest ("Valle de Diquís" refers to the valley of the lower Río Grande de Térraba, including the Osa Canton towns of Puerto Cortés, Palmar Norte, and Sierpe [10]) and provided them with valuable dig sites and personal contacts.
There is a hypothesis that provides petroglyphs of Ingá an exceptional importance from the archeoastronomical point of view. In 1976, the Spanish engineer Francisco Pavía Alemany started a mathematical study of this archaeological monument. The first results were published in 1986 by the Instituto de Arqueologia Brasileira. [2]
Carved stone balls date as old as 5,200 years old, coming from the late Neolithic to at least the Bronze Age. [3]Nearly all have been found in north-east Scotland, the majority in Aberdeenshire, the fertile land lying to the east of the Grampian Mountains.
Stone arch at Pedra Furada.. Pedra Furada (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpɛdɾɐ fuˈɾadɐ], meaning pierced rock) is an important collection of over 800 archaeological sites in the state of Piauí, Brazil.
Bolas or bolases (sg.: bola; from Spanish and Portuguese bola, "ball", also known as a boleadora or boleadeira) is a type of throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of interconnected cords, used to capture animals by entangling their legs.
Pedra Pintada. The Pedra Pintada or "Painted Rock" (not to be confused with Caverna da Pedra Pintada in Pará State) is a large rock in the state of Roraima, Brazil.It is 85 metres long, 35 metres high and 30 metres wide, and is found in the Boa Vista savanna.
Brazilianite, NaAl 3 (PO 4) 2 (OH) 4 is a hydrous sodium aluminium phosphate that forms through the metasomatic alteration of amblygonite-montebrasite. [4] Amblygonite, LiAlPO 4 F in combination with quartz goes through an OH-F exchange to make montebrasite, LiAlPO 4 {F,OH} at temperatures greater than 480 °C. [4]