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Tom Björklund
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Visual artist, paleopainter.
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...
August 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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.
March 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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.
February 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Reposted by Tom Björklund
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
Hunting extinct giant pika in Sardinia. From the book "La preistoria in Sardegna".
January 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Wild puppy
January 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Illustration based on the Mesolithic burial at Gøngehusvej 7 in Vedbæk, Denmark.
December 9, 2024 at 9:03 PM
Reposted by Tom Björklund
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
The flintknapper – Neo-Eneolithic of Sardinia
December 1, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Playing pretending
Essay by April Nowell on childhood during the Ice Age:
aeon.co/essays/what-...
November 23, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Please share your blue art! 💙🖼

Peopling of the Caribbean:
www.shh.mpg.de/1716874/peop...
November 18, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Sometimes I make dinosaur art.
September 11, 2024 at 11:12 AM
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
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
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
This could be the start...
July 28, 2024 at 5:49 PM