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Category Archives: Cave art
The power of wonder
There is no denying our fascination with wildlife. Shows such as Blue Planet, Planet Earth, and the more recent Our Planet, have had millions of viewers across the world. People, young and old, flock around cases full of taxidermy in … Continue reading
Posted in Cave art
Tagged Annette Laming, Bear, Bison, cave art, France, Horses, Ibex, Lascaux Cave, Lascaux Caves, Woolly rhinoceros
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Discovering the mammoth: A tale of giants, unicorns, ivory, and the birth of a new science
Mammoth. With one word, we can all conjure up a mental picture of a woolly elephant, tusks curving out and in, possibly in a herd, in a habitat cold and snowy with biting wind and unforgiving snow. Isn’t it weird? … Continue reading
The Devil on the mountain
When hiking high in the Alps you may encounter the devil himself. Or so claims Swiss naturalist and mountaineer Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740-1799), when he writes, that one will be only ‘in the company of the devil,…’ if climbing the … Continue reading
Posted in Cave art, Chamois
Tagged Alpine-Chamois, Alps, Apenninic-Chamois, Bjorn Kurten, Cave of La Pasiega, Chamois, De Saussure, Devli, Gamsgebirg, Goat, Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, Ibex, Lion, Mammoth, Pyrenean-Chamois, reindeer, Riss glaciation, Rupicapra, Rupicapra (pyrenaica) ornata, Rupicapra pyrenaica, Rupicapra rupicapra, UNgulate
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From the bones of giants
One day in 1443, a mason chiselled the letters “A. E. I. O. U.” on a giant bone which hung from the gates of the bustling city of Vienna. The mason was not making sure they never forgot their vowels … Continue reading
Posted in Cave art
Tagged Acheulean Industry, Ayla, Bison, cave art, Horse, Jan Freedman, Jean Auel, Jondalar, Knapping, löwenmensch, Mammoth, reindeer, Woolly Mammoth
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