Stamps by countries | Asia | Uzbekistan | 2002
Miniature Sheet. Prehistoric Peoples (9 stamps).
Stamp: Prehistoric Peoples
Edition type: commemorative stamps
Denomination of sheet: 725 (som)
Date of issue: 2002 May 10
Depiction: Prehistoric Peoples; Cave painting on margin of the sheet - steppe wisents, mammoth, deers
Colour: multicolored
Paper: chalk-surfaced
Designer: R. Egamberdyev
Perforation: comb. 13,75:14
Printing process: offset
Size of a stamp (mm): 26×37
Size of a sheet (mm): 133×170
Sheet composition: 9 (3×3) stamps
Printing run: 20 000
Stamp issuing authority: JSC Uzbekistan Markasi
Printer: SPS Davlat belgisi
  On stamps of the Miniature Sheet are:
40 (som) - Dryopithecus maior
45 (som) - Homo erectus modjokertensis
50 (som) - Pithecanthropus erecyus
60 (som) - Australopithecus afarensis
70 (som) - Zinjanthropus boisei
85 (som) - Homo sapiens neanderthalensis
90 (som) - Sinanthropus pekinensis
125 (som) - Protanthropus heidelbergensis
160 (som) - Homo sapiens fossilis
Standing Wisent is trace of fragment of Polychrome Ceiling of the Great Hall caves of Altamira, Spain.
Tracing of image from source was made Émile Cartailhac (Cartailhac E., Breuil H.: "La caverne d'Altamira à Santillane, près Santander (Espagne)". Monaco, 1906).
Themes: Steppe Wisent (Bison priscus), Cave Art, Prehistoric Humans
   
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