Apollo 11 Stone Research Paper

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The stones were discovered buried in close proximity to each other in a cave located in Namibia, Africa by German archeologists in 1969. When lead archeologist W.E. Wendt heard the Apollo 11 lunar mission was successful during the dig he dubbed his find The Apollo 11 Stones. These stones date back to the Paleolithic period, 25,500-25,300 B.C.E. making them some of the oldest discovered art in Africa, and perhaps the earliest known evidence of human artistic expression globally. The clearest of these stones is still just known as the Apollo 11 Stone, features an anthropomorphic big cat. This simple yet striking image was created using charcoal on brown-grey quartzite, and like most prehistoric art is portable, being about hand size. While

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