Stone carving
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- Stone carving is an activity where pieces of rough natural stone are shaped by the controlled removal of stone. Owing to the permanence of the material, stone work has survived which was created during our prehistory or past time.
Work carried out by paleolithic societies to create stone tools is more often referred to as knapping. Stone carving that is done to produce lettering is more often referred to as lettering. The process of removing stone from the earth is called mining or quarrying.
Stone carving is one of the processes which may be used by an artist when creating a sculpture. The term also refers to the activity of masons in dressing stone blocks for use in architecture, building or civil engineering. It is also a phrase used by archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists to describe the activity involved in making some types of petroglyphs.
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Hauszeichen mit Segelschiff
Das erhabene Relief des...
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Image: Kulturhistorisches Museum Schloss Merseburg - CC BY-NC-SA -
Relief mit bekröntem Schild
Der Reliefsandstein besitzt...
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Image: Kulturhistorisches Museum Schloss Merseburg - CC BY-NC-SA -
Antiochos I. und Herakles
Zu den archäologischen...
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Image: Archäologisches Museum der WWU Münster - CC BY-NC-SA -
II. Kleine Fundstätte
Die Radierung von Friedrich...
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Image: Winckelmann-Museum Stendal - CC BY-NC-SA -
Taufstein mit den vier Evangelistensymbolen aus der 1360 erbauten und 1876 abgebrochenen Marienkirche in Nagold
"Darum gehet hin und machet...
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Image: Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart - CC BY-SA
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