World Scholar's Cup - Booster Pack
1.A professor from the University of Tennessee who, along with his col-
leagues, published images of giant glyphs carved into the mud surface of a
cave in Alabama in the journal Antiquity. The glyphs depicted human forms
and animals, and are some of the largest known cave images found in
North America. The forms may represent spirits of the underworld, or other
sacred creatures to the indigenous people of the area. One glyph of a
rattlesnake reaches 3 metres in length, and another one of a human figure
is just over
1.8 metres. Using carbon dating, the group dated an American bamboo
torch residue stuck into the wall, also in accord with certain pottery
fragments found in the cave.
ANS Jan Simek
2.A journal published by Professor Jan Simek of the University of
Tennessee and his colleagues that displays images of nearly 2,000-year-old
mud cave carvings found in 19th Unnamed Cave, Alabama.
ANS Antiquity
3.A cave in Alabama which houses large cave carved glyphs, which were
,documented in Jan Simek's journal Antiquity. The glyphs were determined
to be almost 2,000 years old. The glyphs appear to depict human forms
and animals, and stretch (like one of a rattlesnake) up to 3 metres long.
Using
photogrammetry, the team revealed these drawings despite the cave's
ceiling being only 60cm high, moving the point of view to 4 meters away
instead.
ANS 19th unnamed cave
4.A technique often used in archaeology to record artifacts, buildings,
land- scapes, and caves. It involves overlapping thousands of photographs
taken from different angles and combining them digitally.
ANS Photogrammetry
5.Human made markings on stone. It has existed for at least 64,000 years,
though it is likely we know only of very few instances. This is due to thin
engravings being lost to erosion, caves crumbling, and pigments dulling
and eventually vanishing. North American instances found in the dark zones
of caves were only discovered in 1979, more than a century after its
discovery in Europe, found in Northern Spain.
ANS Rock Art
,6.A cave in Estremadura, Spain that houses many drawings that were
difficult to date by Paul Pettitt, Alistair Pike, and their team. 70 years after
the cave was originally found and studied, they digitally found a hand stencil
drawn onto the rocky surface of the cave, which was obscured by built up
calcium carbonate deposits.
ANS Maltravieso
7.A cave painting technique commonly used during the Pleistocene era, in
which the image is only visible when light is shone at a certain oblique
angle (the light is often referred to as raking light). It makes finding cave
drawings notoriously difficult for researchers.
ANS Light engraving
, 8.A technique similar to photogrammetry in which 3d models can be illumi-
nated from any angle, which makes it much easier to detect cave drawings,
specifically ones using the technique of light engraving.
ANS Reflectance Transfor- mation Imaging (RTI)
9.A very recently found technology that uses infra-red waves to penetrate
through layers of prehistoric wall plaster to reveal possible cave paintings
underneath, a technique developed from full body scanners in airport
security systems, which are used to see concealed weapons or contraband.
This tech- nique was first used in Çatalhöyük, Turkey in 2011.
ANS Pulsed terahertz imaging
10.A cave in France that display over 600 cave paintings and a thousand
engravings. It was discovered in 1940 when a group of four teenagers were
trying to rescue their dog that fell down a hole, crawling into the cave
revealed hundreds of prehistoric animals painted across its walls and
ceiling. It became an extremely popular tourist attraction after WWII, but
public access to the cave became closed in 1963 because the breath and
sweat of visitors created carbon dioxide and humidity that would damage
the paintings. It has no stalactites or stalagmites because there is a layer of
1.A professor from the University of Tennessee who, along with his col-
leagues, published images of giant glyphs carved into the mud surface of a
cave in Alabama in the journal Antiquity. The glyphs depicted human forms
and animals, and are some of the largest known cave images found in
North America. The forms may represent spirits of the underworld, or other
sacred creatures to the indigenous people of the area. One glyph of a
rattlesnake reaches 3 metres in length, and another one of a human figure
is just over
1.8 metres. Using carbon dating, the group dated an American bamboo
torch residue stuck into the wall, also in accord with certain pottery
fragments found in the cave.
ANS Jan Simek
2.A journal published by Professor Jan Simek of the University of
Tennessee and his colleagues that displays images of nearly 2,000-year-old
mud cave carvings found in 19th Unnamed Cave, Alabama.
ANS Antiquity
3.A cave in Alabama which houses large cave carved glyphs, which were
,documented in Jan Simek's journal Antiquity. The glyphs were determined
to be almost 2,000 years old. The glyphs appear to depict human forms
and animals, and stretch (like one of a rattlesnake) up to 3 metres long.
Using
photogrammetry, the team revealed these drawings despite the cave's
ceiling being only 60cm high, moving the point of view to 4 meters away
instead.
ANS 19th unnamed cave
4.A technique often used in archaeology to record artifacts, buildings,
land- scapes, and caves. It involves overlapping thousands of photographs
taken from different angles and combining them digitally.
ANS Photogrammetry
5.Human made markings on stone. It has existed for at least 64,000 years,
though it is likely we know only of very few instances. This is due to thin
engravings being lost to erosion, caves crumbling, and pigments dulling
and eventually vanishing. North American instances found in the dark zones
of caves were only discovered in 1979, more than a century after its
discovery in Europe, found in Northern Spain.
ANS Rock Art
,6.A cave in Estremadura, Spain that houses many drawings that were
difficult to date by Paul Pettitt, Alistair Pike, and their team. 70 years after
the cave was originally found and studied, they digitally found a hand stencil
drawn onto the rocky surface of the cave, which was obscured by built up
calcium carbonate deposits.
ANS Maltravieso
7.A cave painting technique commonly used during the Pleistocene era, in
which the image is only visible when light is shone at a certain oblique
angle (the light is often referred to as raking light). It makes finding cave
drawings notoriously difficult for researchers.
ANS Light engraving
, 8.A technique similar to photogrammetry in which 3d models can be illumi-
nated from any angle, which makes it much easier to detect cave drawings,
specifically ones using the technique of light engraving.
ANS Reflectance Transfor- mation Imaging (RTI)
9.A very recently found technology that uses infra-red waves to penetrate
through layers of prehistoric wall plaster to reveal possible cave paintings
underneath, a technique developed from full body scanners in airport
security systems, which are used to see concealed weapons or contraband.
This tech- nique was first used in Çatalhöyük, Turkey in 2011.
ANS Pulsed terahertz imaging
10.A cave in France that display over 600 cave paintings and a thousand
engravings. It was discovered in 1940 when a group of four teenagers were
trying to rescue their dog that fell down a hole, crawling into the cave
revealed hundreds of prehistoric animals painted across its walls and
ceiling. It became an extremely popular tourist attraction after WWII, but
public access to the cave became closed in 1963 because the breath and
sweat of visitors created carbon dioxide and humidity that would damage
the paintings. It has no stalactites or stalagmites because there is a layer of
