The peoples of the Tarim Basin in northern China are now known to be Caucasian and there were widespread attempts to keep western archeologists from testing samples such as deliberately replacing the mummies or decapitating them, even defacing ancient cave painting depictions of these people with large amounts of body hair and features such as red colored hair and blue eyes.

* SERA Karst Task Force – a non-profit resource organization dedicated to karst conservation and the clean up of cave and karst features

Great masks with gaping jaws and monstrous features in stone or stucco were often located at the entrance to temples, symbolizing a cavern or cave on the flanks of the mountains that allowed access to the depths of Mother Earth and the shadowy roads that lead to the underworld.

Archaeology features such as shell middens, discarded fish bones and cave paintings show that sea foods were important for survival and consumed in significant quantities.

Archaeology features such as shell middens, discarded fish bones and cave paintings show that sea foods were important for survival and consumed in significant quantities.

The cave tour features a ride on the lake in boats with electric motors.

James Island County Park, approximately 11 minutes by car from downtown Charleston, features a 50-foot climbing wall and bouldering cave ; cabin, RV, and tent camping facilities ; rental facilities, fishing dock, challenge course, kayaking programs, summer camps, paved trails, and many special events such as the Lowcountry Cajun Festival ( usually the first weekend in April ), East Coast Canoe and Kayak Festival ( 3rd weekend in April ), Holiday Festival of Lights ( mid-November through the first of the year ), and the summer outdoor reggae concerts.

However, according to Anton and Steadman ( page 136 ), Gill's " description of the physical features of this cave does not match that of the cave currently known as Kauvava ".

Nearby Niagara Cave is one of the largest caves in the Midwest and features ancient fossils older than some dinosaurs, a waterfall in the largest room in the cave, and a wedding chapel.

North of Florence on U. S. Route 101 are the Sea Lion Caves, a tourist attraction that features a sea cave that is the year-round home of a population of Steller sea lions.

James Island County Park, features a 50-foot climbing wall and bouldering cave ; cabin, RV, and tent camping facilities ; rental facilities, fishing dock, challenge course, kayaking programs, summer camps, paved trails, and many special events such as the Lowcountry Cajun Festival ( usually the first weekend in April ), East Coast Canoe and Kayak Festival ( 3rd weekend in April ), Holiday Festival of Lights ( mid-November through the first of the year ), and the summer outdoor reggae concerts.

James Island County Park, features a 50-foot climbing wall and bouldering cave ; cabin, RV, and tent camping facilities ; rental facilities, fishing dock, challenge course, kayaking programs, summer camps, paved trails, and many special events such as the Lowcountry Cajun Festival ( usually the first weekend in April ), East Coast Canoe and Kayak Festival ( 3rd weekend in April ), Holiday Festival of Lights ( mid-November through the first of the year ), and the summer outdoor reggae concerts.

This fragment also features a short comic segment with Laurel & Hardy hide in a cave in which a bear has taken shelter.

Although the least developed region in the country, it features some of the most pristine rainforests, extensive cave networks, coastal lowland plains, and offshore cays.

Distribution of karst features in Missouri: darker red indicates greater cave density ; losing stream courses are shown in yellow ; blue spots indicate known springs.

The morphological features of the cave bear chewing apparatus, including loss of premolars, have long been suggested to indicate their diets displayed a higher degree of herbivory than the Eurasian brown bear.

The 2001 film The Caveman's Valentine features a former pianist and paranoid schizophrenic named Romulus Ledbetter ( Samuel L. Jackson ), who lives in a cave in Inwood Park.

It is 5 km SE of the Buddhist temple Wat Tham Phu Wa which features a series of grotto shrines within a large limestone cave system.

The Peştera Muierilor find is that of a single, fairly complete cranium of a woman with rugged facial traits and otherwise modern skull features was found in a lower gallery of the " Women's cave " in Romania, among numerous cave bear remains.

Key epistemological features of the charioteer myth are ( 1 ) an emphasis, as with the cave allegory, upon true knowledge as ascent, ( 2 ) and the need to tame one's passionate nature to obtain true knowledge.

There are excellent examples of almost every variety of basaltic lava as well as tree molds ( cavities left by lava-incinerated trees ), lava tubes ( a type of cave ), and many other volcanic features.

The Carso has geological features and phenomena such as hollows, cave networks and underground rivers, which extend inland in the provinces of Trieste and Gorizia, with an altitude ranging between 300m and 600m.

features of a carabao, for example, and live in a cave under the water.

The path continues to ascend, and the side of the ravine, on which it runs, becomes steeper, until a cave is reached above which the mountain now rises almost perpendicularly ; while on the right, it strikes in a rapid descent down to where, in St Benedict's day, below, lay the blue waters of the lake.

By his advice Benedict became a hermit and for three years, unknown to men, lived in this cave above the lake.

Highlights here include Eiben Forest near Dermbach, the fairytale sandstone cave at Walldorf, the deepest lake in Germany formed by land subsidence, which is near Bernshausen, and the " Krayenburg ", the ruins of a castle ( dating back to the year 786 ), restaurant and a tower with a wide outlook into the Werra valley near Tiefenort.

The park contains a picnic area, hiking trails, a fishing lake, a cave amphitheater, several lookouts and contains many natural rock formations, including Log Rock and Raven Rock.

A particularly vivid account was written in 1619: ' as I was contemplating the serene sky by night, I saw a very bright dragon with flapping wings go from a cave in a great rock in the mount called Pilatus toward another cave, known as Flue, on the opposite side of the lake '.

* The birthplace of the prophet Abraham – a cave to the south of the lake

He spends a miserable winter alone in the outdoors mostly hiding in a cave on the lake that partly freezes over.

According to Avestan sources, Afrasiab was killed by Haoma near the Čīčhast ( possibly either referring to Lake Hamun in Sistan or some unknown lake in today's Central Asia ), and according to Shahnameh he met his death in a cave known as the Hang-e Afrasiab, or the dying place of Afrasiab, on a mountaintop in Azerbaijan.

Tools have been found in ancient lake deposits at Przeletice and a cave site at Stranska Skala, dated no later than. 5 mya.

Image: Lagoon in Phi-Phi islands. jpg | Internal lake connecting through a cave to the open sea.

These include the Tioyacu River and the subterranean river in the cave of the Huacharos ( Cueva de los Huacharos ), the natural hot springs at San Mateo, the Laguna Azul lake, the Ahuashiyacu and the Gera waterfalls.

Ahal is known for the Geok Tepe battle of 1881, today the site of an imposing new mosque, and for the Baharden underground warm lake ( in the Kov Ata karst cave ), both west of Ashgabat.

Opened in 1998, Cascade Crest is a mountain-like exhibit made mostly of basalt and features a snow cave, cirque lake, and twisted alpine trees.

Originally long time ago, at the dock of the Sen River next to a lake, there was a big cave with a pair of big snakes inside.

After getting sealed inside the cave, Tintin finds an underwater tunnel leading out to the lake.

Galen then returns to the cave, spreading the ashes and the wizard is resurrected from the flames of the burning lake.

When hot water from the lake spills, it quickly melts the ice and snow in the glacier forming a cave like tunnel when viewed from below.

The Commission ’ s meetings have heard papers on the stratigraphy of Pleistocene and Holocene sediments in the light of malacological and palinological analyses, the age of shifts, the conditions for the deposition of lake chalks, and the formation of cave dripstones.

The lake now drains from the summit through an outlet cave into Indecision Creek.

The north is a succession of tiny fajãs at the bottom of ravines that are hundreds of metres deep ; the outstanding ones are those of Caldeira de Santo Cristo with an underwater cave and a lake which is the only source of cockles in the Azores, Cubres ( also with a crystalline lake ) and Ouvidor.

Quantities such as tree ring widths, coral growth, isotope variations in ice cores, ocean and lake sediments, cave deposits, fossils, ice cores, borehole temperatures, and glacier length records are correlated with climatic fluctuations.

In Virgil's Aeneid, Aeneas descends to the underworld through a cave near the lake.