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  2. Cave painting - Wikipedia

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    Prehistoric cave painting of animals at Albarracín, Teruel, Spain (rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin) Cave artists use a variety of techniques such as finger tracing, modeling in clay, engravings, bas-relief sculpture, hand stencils, and paintings done in two or three colors. Scholars classify cave art as "Signs" or abstract marks.

  3. Orpiment - Wikipedia

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    Orpiment, also known as ″yellow arsenic blende″ is a deep-colored, orange-yellow arsenic sulfide mineral with formula As 2 S 3.It is found in volcanic fumaroles, low-temperature hydrothermal veins, and hot springs and may be formed through sublimation.

  4. Rock art of the Chumash people - Wikipedia

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    Painted Cave, Santa Barbara County, California. Chumash rock art is a genre of paintings on caves, mountains, cliffs, or other living rock surfaces, created by the Chumash people of Southern California. Pictographs and petroglyphs are common through interior California, the rock painting tradition thrived until the 19th century. Chumash rock ...

  5. Blue Grotto (Capri) - Wikipedia

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    Painting by Jakob Alt, 1835–36. The Blue Grotto (Italian: Grotta Azzurra) is a sea cave on the coast of the island of Capri, southern Italy.Sunlight shining through an underwater cavity is reflected back upward through the seawater below the cavern, giving the water a blue glow that illuminates the cavern.

  6. Caving - Wikipedia

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    Caving in a muddy section of Black Chasm Cave in California Stephens Gap, a vertical cave in Alabama. Caving, also known as spelunking (United States and Canada) and potholing (United Kingdom and Ireland), is the recreational pastime of exploring wild cave systems (as distinguished from show caves).

  7. Florida man dies while diving in dangerous underwater caves - AOL

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    "They weren't planning to explore any deeper than the first room of the cave when the incident occurred."

  8. List of UK caving fatalities - Wikipedia

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    Porth yr Ogof – the scene of 11 fatalities. The following is a list of the 137 identified recorded fatalities associated with recreational caving in the UK. The main causes of death have been drowning when cave diving, drowning as the result of flooding or negotiating deep water, injuries incurred from falling from a height, and injuries incurred as the result of rock falls.

  9. 30 Color Photos Photographers Took 100 Years Ago That Still ...

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    That's why we've put together a list of some of the oldest color photographs so we can all marvel at the ingenuity of photography and feel closer to the history of the pla