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Tom Björklund
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Visual artist, paleopainter.
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One of the illustrations I made for the article by Tommaso Mori et al. on cranial modification in stone age Italy.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The event takes place in north-western Italy near the Arene Candide cave over twelve thousand years ago. A young girl holds a toddler firmly in her arms while an adult woman tightly binds the child’s head with the aim of influencing how the child’s skull will develop.
August 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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House sparrow. World Sparrow Day was celebrated yesterday (march 20), emphasising the important role sparrows have in their ecosystems, and sadly, also a reminder of the dramatic decline of sparrow populations basically everywhere.
A male House sparrow hopping on the ground. World Sparrow Day is celebrated every year on March 20.
March 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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I noticed that the dear girl is out in the public again, and this time in association with a news story about a study on the skin colour changes of prehistoric Europeans over time. So here she is, Lola, the Danish birch pitch chewing gum girl.
A blue eyed, brown skinned Stone Age girl sitting by the water surrounded by fishing equipment, mallard ducks and hazelnuts, in what is now Denmark. She is holding a piece of birch pitch gum in her hand. From the ancient gum researchers were able to find DNA from the person who had chewed it, and even from the food she had probably eaten shortly before.
February 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Money is tight now thanks to some unexpected expenses
So here’s me bumping my gumroad. -.-

I have some 3d models and my procreate fur brushes available on my gumroad at

villes.gumroad.com

Thank you for your support!
January 29, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Hunting extinct giant pika in Sardinia. From the book "La preistoria in Sardegna".
A Mesolithic hunter capturing Sardinian pikas with a net. On the ground a large Charonia shell, which was used as an instrument.
January 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Wild puppy
A curly haired and blue eyed Mesolithic boy holding a headwear decorated with animal teeth in one hand and a wild puppy under his other arm.
January 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Illustration based on the Mesolithic burial at Gøngehusvej 7 in Vedbæk, Denmark.
A Stone Age woman dressed in leather and fur clothing is standing sideways. Her headwear is decorated with the bill and feathers of a great crested grebe. She also wears a necklace made of teeth of several animal species. A pair of deer hooves is hanging below the necklace.
December 9, 2024 at 9:03 PM
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New paper out! Children actively made hand-stencils and flutings in the Upper Palaeolithic, but can we identify children's cave art without anatomical measurements? We present a new framework using universal features of young children's drawings 🏺 www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3...
Children as playful artists: Integrating developmental psychology to identify children’s art in the Upper Palaeolithic: Hunter Gatherer Research: Vol 0, No 0
Children’s agential behaviours in the archaeological record have often been overlooked. Despite efforts to centre children in the past through ‘an archaeology of childhood’, there remains a fundamenta...
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
December 2, 2024 at 1:00 PM
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The flintknapper – Neo-Eneolithic of Sardinia
A toolmaker is sitting on the ground knapping flint outside his house, leaning against the wattle and daub wall. In the doorway a woman dressed in black is looking at the viewer, beside her a young girl holds a toddler in her arms. In the foreground on the left side of the image a customer is inspecting the flint blades. On the right side a small dog is sleeping amidst baskets, animal hides, wooden bowls and a simple stone grinder. At the bottom center of the picture is a peculiar three legged ceramic vessel.
December 1, 2024 at 9:01 PM
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Playing pretending
Essay by April Nowell on childhood during the Ice Age:
aeon.co/essays/what-...
Four children of various ages playing pretending. Perhaps imitating a religious ritual. One of them is wearing a wooden mask and an old bearskin cloak. Behind them there are woolly mammoth skull parts and tusks on the ground.
November 23, 2024 at 8:24 PM
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Please share your blue art! 💙🖼

Peopling of the Caribbean:
www.shh.mpg.de/1716874/peop...
The image symbolises the early peopling of the Caribbean. A canoe is heading towards small islands. The viewer sits in the canoe and a young boy is sitting on the bow looking at the viewer. Behind the boy there is a pet Cuban macaw. A now extinct species.
November 18, 2024 at 4:53 PM
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Sometimes I make dinosaur art.
September 11, 2024 at 11:12 AM
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A work in progress image of a depiction of Aurignacian mammoth ivory jewellery I made for the Urgeschichtliches Museum Blaubeuren in Germany.
September 8, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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In 2020 I was asked to create illustrations for an upcoming viking exhibition but unexpectedly the project was put on hold. The Russian Ministry of Culture had suddenly denied permission for loans from Russian museums to leave the country. We now know the grim reason behind that action.
September 8, 2024 at 10:51 AM
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My cover image for The Oxford Handbook of Mesolithic Europe (available for pre-ordering – the book, not the image, as it still isn't possible to get any prints of my pics...)
August 14, 2024 at 12:43 PM
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This could be the start...
July 28, 2024 at 5:49 PM