Giants is now open at the National Museum of Scotland. In this interactive exhibition, discover ten enormous but often overlooked giant creatures from prehistory. Through life-sized 3D sculptures, skeletons, fossils and videos that bring them to life, experience the immense scale of these giants, and learn about their natural habitats and biology.
https://www.nms.ac.uk/exhibitions/giants?utm_source=globalmuseum #globalmuseum #museums #prehistory #exhibitions
Ross Gayler
and 3 others
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Wood engraving print, 75x75mm. The Ring of Brodgar, Orkney.
Wood engraving print, 75x75mm. The Ring of Brodgar, Orkney.
Chip Butty
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The Carpow logboat on display in Perth Museum 🏴 It was found in the Tay Estuary near Perth and dates to around 1000 BC, in the Late Bronze Age. #Woodensday #logboat #oak #prehistory #scotland #archaeology
The Carpow logboat on display in Perth Museum 🏴 It was found in the Tay Estuary near Perth and dates to around 1000 BC, in the Late Bronze Age. #Woodensday #logboat #oak #prehistory #scotland #archaeology
This Tom Björklund painting touches me much more than I could say. He made it to illustrate a paper in Science that relates the finding of the first ever known father-daughter pair of Neandertals, in a siberian cave.
https://www.science.org/content/article/ancient-genomes-offer-rare-glimpse-neanderthal-family-groups
Fascinated by human narratives passed down from generation to generation about the time of the end of the last Ice Age and the great melt and the sea level rise that came with it.
https://hakaimagazine.com/news/memories-of-the-end-of-the-last-ice-age-from-those-who-were-there/
priryo@linernotes.club
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Time for a new #introduction!
I'm a former #geographer & #mapmaker, now working on a #PhD project in digital #archaeology, between #Prehistory and #openSource #geospatial.
I used to work as an #artist, I'm into #sailing (I was #livingAboard during a few years) and #musicMaking is my happy place. I'm also a happy #dad and I'm fluent in fr, en & es.
Finally, I'm the proud admin of https://Mapstodon.space, a great #Mastodon instance dedicated to maps — & full of decent and interesting people!
Time for a new #introduction!
I'm a former #geographer & #mapmaker, now working on a #PhD project in digital #archaeology, between #Prehistory and #openSource #geospatial.
I used to work as an #artist, I'm into #sailing (I was #livingAboard during a few years) and #musicMaking is my happy place. I'm also a happy #dad and I'm fluent in fr, en & es.
Finally, I'm the proud admin of https://Mapstodon.space, a great #Mastodon instance dedicated to maps — & full of decent and interesting people!