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A young woolly mammoth from Chauvet Cave, painted about 35,000 years ago, showing the hairy foot pads. From “Les Mammouths de la grotte Chauvet” by Bernard Gély and Marc Azéma
February 8, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Wow, a rare example of a Neolithic axe with its original ash wood handle still preserved!

Resembling a modern felling axe, it was probably used to clear forest some 5,200 years ago. From Borum, eastern Jutland, Denmark. Moesgaard Museum. 📷 by me

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A Neolithic axe from Denmark. The axe head is knapped from grey flint which has been ground and polished. The ash wood handle is still preserved and curved like modern axe handles to give greater stability during use. About half way down the shaft, there is a break in the wood. Dated c. 3,200 BC. My photo taken at Moesgaard Museum, near Aarhus, Denmark.
January 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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jessiegender.bsky.social
Gonna miss you Star Trek Lower Decks ❤️🖖
December 19, 2024 at 8:51 AM
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caleyorr.bsky.social
Our new paper announcing a freely available database of 3D scans of primate skeletal material--a major effort led by Sergio Almécija & his team at the American Museum of Natural History.
🧪 🏺 #paleosky #anatomy #primates #anthropology #morphology #zoology #paleoanthropology #openscience
Primate Phenotypes: A Multi-Institution Collection of 3D Morphological Data Housed in MorphoSource - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Primate Phenotypes: A Multi-Institution Collection of 3D Morphological Data Housed in MorphoSource
www.nature.com
December 18, 2024 at 9:39 PM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! These sewing #needles were made from animal bones some 15,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start. Form follows function! 🧵1/2

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The picture shows six needles of different sizes. They were made of bone resemble their modern descendants with an eye at one end and a tapered end.
December 18, 2024 at 11:28 AM
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mattpope.bsky.social
Chauvet Cave was discovered on the 18th December 1994.
30 years ago today. To many it is the most arresting expression of cave art in the archaeological record & it is one of the oldest examples in Europe.
Here are four of my highlights.
archeologie.culture.gouv.fr/chauvet/en
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For cat lovers everywhere, no less than 15 big cats, cave lions?, lionesses?, in black outline on the beige limestone rock. All are looking left, their attention utterly caught by the bison and bear drawn there. There is so much energy in their attentiveness, as if about to move. Some close superimposition of cat profiles hints at animation A large pendant of stalactite drops down from the cave roof. On it is drawn the lower half of a female figure taking in the wider part of the stal as her belly, black charcoal outlines sketching her tapering legs and pubic hair. From the right, also in black, a bison in profile is superimposed on the left flank of the female, by its leg appears to merge with her leg. the single eye of the bison appear coincident with the position of the belly button of the female. Ambiguity in showing human forms directly does seem to be a part of Aurignacian and later European cave art. At least 10 Woolly Rhinos, in black outline on the beige limestone rock. At the top four look closely superimposed giving an impression of animated movement. Finally the famous, beautiful image of four horses, all facing left drawn in black outline on the beige limestone with yellow ochre paint to the rear. The person, or people, who drew these, captured something so essential in the nature of the horse, as with so many Chauvet animals there is empathy/sympathy here.
December 18, 2024 at 11:42 AM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
Fishing some 5,300 years ago: a Neolithic fishhook made of wild boar tusk, wrapped with a fishing line. The size of the fishhook is 6.5 cm. It was used to catch pikes.

Found in the lake-dwelling settlement of Arbon Bleiche 3, Switzerland.

On display at Archäologisches Museum Frauenfeld

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The picture shows a fishhook made of wild boar tusk. Only the curved, pointed end and the upper part are visible. The rest is wrapped in fishing line. The fishing line is made of twisted bast.
December 7, 2024 at 6:44 PM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
A rare and delicate survival from Bronze Age Denmark!

A 3,400 year-old woollen bonnet made using the ancient ‘språng’ technique which produces a textile with natural elasticity.

From Bredmose bog, Jutland. National Museum, Copenhagen
📷 by me

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My photo shows a woman’s bonnet laid flat for display at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen. The woollen yarn is brown in colour, possibly as a result of millennia spent in a peat bog. It has an inricate lace-like appearance. It has two long strings for fastening. Made using an ancient technique known as ‘språng’ which produces a textile with natural elasticity. Discovered in 1942 in Bredmose bog on a so-called ‘bog body’ of a woman aged 20-25 years old. The bonnet was placed over her hair which was braided and coiled on top of her head.
December 5, 2024 at 9:01 AM
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kmdoublev.bsky.social
Springer wrapped just dropped. My top artist is "log in via an institution to check access."
December 4, 2024 at 6:20 PM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social

Beautiful and ancient #IceAge art!

Small figurine of a horse, realistically sculpted from mammoth ivory around 15,000 years ago.

Known as ‘The Little Horse of Lourdes’ it was found in 1886, in a rock fissure in the Espélugues cave, Lourdes, Haute-Pyrénées, France. 📷 by me

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Side profile of a small horse statuette carved from mammoth ivory around 15,000 years ago, measuring (L) 7.3 cm x (H) 3.5 cm The horse has been masterfully sculpted with accurate details. The coat is depicted by a series of lines composed of incisions and dots, the mane by slight cross-hatched reliefs, and the eyes, nostrils, and ears flattened on the animal's head are carved as indents. The four legs are incomplete. The surface has a brown shiny patina, which was once likely pale white in colour. Known as ‘The Little Horse of Lourdes’, it was discovered in 1886 in a rock fissure in the Espélugues cave, Lourdes, Haute-Pyrénées, France. Part of the collections at the Musée d'Archéologie Nationale, Domaine national de Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
December 4, 2024 at 2:45 PM
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Another remarkable little sculpture in mammoth ivory from Vogelherd Cave in the Swabian Jura: probably a chunky cave lion (photo: Don Hitchcock)
December 2, 2024 at 8:28 AM
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Now look at those sweeping lines and brilliant hues - and say that these same Paleolithic artists couldn't have easily stirred up the expressionist art scene of the Roaring Twenties as well ...

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mattpope.bsky.social Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · Dec 2
As we approach mid-winter, an illustration of cave art showing two Reindeer; from Font de Gaume cave, France.
One is licking or smelling the other who appears to be sleeping? giving birth? dead or dying?.
Originally rendered by someone of the Magdalenian culture, 16,000 years ago.
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Drawing of two Reindeer, outlined in black and unfilled with light brown colouring. One, large, bodly coloured with elaborate, forward facing antlers is, bending their neck down to sniff or lick the other. The other is large and appears to be laying down, head on one side?
December 2, 2024 at 5:48 PM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
The condition of fabrics from pile dwelling and wetland settlements is amazing. This charred ball of thread was found at the site of Marin-Epagnier/Préfargier. It was made of hemp or lime fibres, and dates about 3900-3300BC. The thread measures a total of ca. 10m in length.
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A dark, almost black ball of tightly wound thread. The thread is densely packed, creating a l complex interwoven texture. 
November 28, 2024 at 8:05 AM