Petroglyph at stone 3, Pedres de la Creu Blanca, Catalonia, Spain. © Vicenç Armangué i Ribas via Megalítica.
Dated at 3rd-4th millennium BC. This item appears on this book:
- V. Armangué i Ribas, Guia del megalitisme de l’Alt Empordà, Megalítica, 2015.
[Bibtex]@Book{armangueribasmegalitisme2015, author = {Armangué i Ribas, Vicenç}, title = {Guia del megalitisme de l'Alt Empordà}, year = {2015}, date = {2015-04-01}, note = {Col·laboren: Ajuntament de Vilajuïga, Diputació de Girona, Via Pirena}, publisher = {Megalítica}, isbn = {9788460676775}, pages = {163}, url = {http://megalitica.cat/ca/guia-del-megalitisme.asp}, urldate = {2016-09-05}, comment = {© Vicenç Armangué i Ribas}, owner = {trismegisto}, timestamp = {2016-09-05}, }
See a detailed catalogue of megalithic remains from the area at megalitica.cat, the publishers of the book.
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Fig. 30. Commonality of the most often depicted petroglyph, the squatter human or anthromorph.
Fig. 34. (Bottom) Plasma pinch instability. When multikiloamperes or megaamperes of current flow though the plasma column, the flattened toroids both flatten and warp. (Top) Petroglyphs representative of the warping phenomena, for example, in the “belly” of the “squatter” men shown.
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