Category Archives: prehistory
links for 2010-01-04: big-brained Boskops
What Happened to the Hominids Who Were Smarter Than Us? | Human Evolution | DISCOVER Magazine "Back there in the past, ten thousand years ago. The man of the future, with the big brain, the small teeth. He lived in … more…
The Evolution of House Cats
Pretty interesting piece on The Evolution of House Cats at Scientific American, in which we discover that most of the varieties and breeds of contemporary cat are no more genetically different than, in the example given, French and Italian people; … more…
Rock Art of England
Gled Law, Northumberland New site which aims to catalogue the rock art of northern England. (via Guardian)
Get thee behind me, Santa
I’m back, and very glad to be back. I am also full of a nasty head cold, so posting is likely to be a bit underwhelming for a few days more. Illustration from Robert Anton Wilson’s exposition of the ancient … more…
links for 2006-12-19: Picasso, centipede, “At This Rate…”
Underground Art – washingtonpost.com Picasso’s response to Lascaux (tags: Picasso Lascaux prehistory art cave_painting) Beyond the Beyond Sterling defines centipede (tags: politics Centipede scandal smear neologism) Show-off Gallery Giles Revell & Matt Willey (tags: photography catastrophe leaves)
Wally Wallington – This Man Can Move Anything
This is outstanding YouTubery: Wally Wallington — who really should form a society with Mil Millington without delay — has figured out a way of moving stupidly huge rocks around, single handed, using wood, stones, rope and gravity. Reckons he … more…
Bradshaw Art
There are ancient rock paintings in the Kimberley, an inhospitable and sparsely populated region in the north west of Australia. They are known locally as Gwion Gwion, and according to legend, the paintings were made by birds, who pecked at … more…
Ancient Celtic New Zealand
Ancient Celtic New Zealand – say what? Yes, they have Geomancers down there too. There’s some impressively detailed work done on the kind of celestial alignments we’re very familiar with in connection with paleolithic earthworks in the UK, but which … more…
Museum of London – the Thames in Prehistory
This is a flint handaxe, reckoned to be 300,000 years old, discovered during the construction of the Regent Palace Hotel in 1912, in Glasshouse Street, Picadilly. The site advertises the opening of a new gallery, London before London, which I … more…
La Brea Tar Pits
One of the most famous sites in the world for fossil remains. The web site explains how tar pits form, and why they are such an excellent source for the palaeontologist. And then there are pictures like this one, which … more…