Brown Adipose Tissue. Everyone is familiar with white adipose or fat tissue, which provides insulation and, by storing triglyceride, serves as an energy depot. Many mammals also have brown adipose tissue, which also stores triglyceride, but has the unique ability to generate heat.
What is the Earliest Art of Northern Africa? The oldest prehistoric art from North Africa is the early Stone Age quartzite figurine from Morocco known as the Venus of Tan-Tan. It has been carbon-dated to the period 200,000-500,000 BCE, and probably was created by advanced Acheulian peoples of north-western Africa on the main southerly route into Southern Europe.
The oldest is a black granite statue of Queen Senet of Egypt, made during the XII Dynasty between 1985 and 1785BC and brought back from Egypt in 1862 by the future Edward VII. It is on display as part of the Cairo to Constantinople exhibition which runs alongside the Gold exhibition at the Queenâs Gallery, Buckingham Palace, from this Friday.