Anthropology And Archaeology

Colombia 2019 National Parks I - Chiribiquete
Chiribiquete National Park is situated in the western region of the Guiana Shield. Over 75000 petroglyphs and pictographs have been made by indigenous people on the walls of some 60 tepuis (flat-top sandstone formation) shelters inside the park. The rock art is dated as far back as over 12 millennium BC.

Estonia 1995 Finno-Ugric Peoples
The minisheet features culture and writing of Finno-Ugric people. The artifacts shown in five stamps are from the Saami, Volga, Samoyedic, Permic, and Ugric Groups. The large figure across the entire sheet appears to be an animal with various antler points identified with various groups of people. These groups of people are generally dated to the Early Bronze Age (ca. 1800 BC).

SURINAME
1975

Stone Arrowhead

BRITISH HONDURAS
1942
Stone figures. Maya civilization

Chile
1995

Cave painting. Mask with spirals (Limari province)
Cave painting. Guanacos (El Loa province)
Cave painting. Capture of a dolphin (Taltal province)
Petroglyph. Masked man (El Encanto ravine)

Liechtenstein 2025 EUROPA - National Archaeological Discoveries
The Gutenberg votive statuettes are solid cast bronze figures dated from the Late Iron Age (500-100 BC). They are used as symbolic sacrifices during burial ceremonies. The minisheet shows a view of the excavation site.

CHILE 1983

The Pucará of Quitor is a pre-Inca construction located 3 km north of San Pedro de Atacama that dates back to the 12th century.
It is built of stones that climb a hill as a fortress with a perimeter defensive wall

CHILE
1983
Cave Paintings - Río Ibáñez, Aisen

These paintings were made 3.000 years ago by the people who lived in the Patagonian-Aisen area

Mexico 2016 Cave Paintings of Samalayuca
The cave paintings of Samalayuca is a collection of ancient drawings that depict human, animals, plants, and astronomical images. The paintings are believed to have been created by nomadic hunter-gatherer groups dated as far back as 3000 BC.

France 1986 Filitosa
Filitosa is a megalithic site in southern Corsica. The period of occupation spans from the end of the Neolithic era to the Bronze Age until around the Roman times. Arrow heads and pottery date earliest inhabitation to 3300 BC, while 2-3 meter tall granite menhirs were erected around 1500 BC.

CHILE
1983
Duck Jugs

The Duck Jugs are assymetrical vessels whose shape resembles a duck.
Pottery of the pre-Columbian Diaguita culture.

MEXICO 1954
The Olmec colossal heads

Representation of human heads sculped from large basalt boulders.
The heads date from at least 900 BC and are a distintive feature of the Olmec civilization of ancient Mesoamerica.