engrave
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The auction house said in its promotional material that very little was known of the painting -- only that a peer of Rubens had made an engraving of it.
From Barron's
They settled in Philadelphia and, as a teenager, he learned engraving and earned a living incising designs for silverware firms—no doubt honing his talent for detail.
Dental-lab technicians shifted from manual molds to digital scanning and CAD/CAM; etchers and engravers moved from hand tools to digital engraving.
“The evidence that Homo naledi made the rock engravings is weak. Though skeletal material and the engravings are in the same cave context, at present there is no way to directly associate them,” he says.
From Scientific American
They also discovered crosshatchings and other geometric shapes engraved on the cave walls; some were carved on top of others, indicating they were etched at different times.
From Science Magazine
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