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Cornelis Visscher
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Neolithic Scotland. Outer Hebrides. Archaeology. Mythology. Biology. Pathology. Photography. Anything-that-catches-my-fancyology.
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Lovely: A visit to Yosemite Cemetery by rare book librarian Megan Curran, over on The Order of the Good Death.
By far the most beautiful grave in Yosemite Cemetery belongs to another teenager who succumbed to a fall. Effie Maud Crippen was aged “14 years 7 mos 22 days” according to her tombstone, when “she faltered by the wayside and the angels took her home.”
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Bronze Age ‘Facebook’ discovered by Cambridge experts
Ancient rock art has been likened to a prehistoric form of Facebook by a Cambridge archaeologist.
Mark Sapwell, who is a PhD archaeology student at St John’s College, believes he has discovered an “archaic version” of the social networking site, where users share thoughts and emotions and give stamps of approval to other contributions – similar to the Facebook “like”.
Images of animals and events were drawn on the rock faces in Russian and Northern Sweden to communicate with distant tribes and descendants during the Bronze Age.
They form a timeline preserved in stone encompassing thousands of years.
Mr Sapwell said: “Like a Facebook status invites comment, the rock art appears very social and invites addition – the way the variations of image both mirror and reinterpret act as a kind of call and response between different packs of hunters across hundreds – even thousands – of years.”
The two sites he is investigating, Zalavruga in Russia and Nämforsen in Northern Sweden, contain around 2,500 images each of animals, people, boats, hunting scenes and even early centaurs and mermaids. Read more.
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Car-Sized Turtle Found in Colombian Coal Mine
Remains of an enormous turtle, which was the size of a Smart car, have been unearthed in a Colombian coal mine.
The shell alone of the 60-million-year-old turtle, Carbonemys cofrinii aka “coal turtle,” is large enough to be a small swimming pool. Its skull is roughly the size of a regulation NFL football.(via scientificillustration)
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