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Cenozoic //𓃭\\ For I was once already boy and girl,/ Thicket and bird, and mute fish in the waves./ And then we came unto a roofèd cave...
Episode 3.1: Prehistoric Animation and Proto-Cinema, The Archaeology of Light and Darkness, and the Thirty-Thousand-Year-Old Holy Movie Theatre open.spotify.com/episode/44iTHr…
"In languages of New Guinea and Australia, such as the Telefol language of Papua New Guinea, body counting is used, to give higher base counting systems, up to base-27."
The Iñupiat of Alaska traditionally use a base-20 number system. In 1994, students at Kaktovik middle school worked with their teacher to invent a way to write this, since they found our base-10 unfamiliar. After the invention of Kaktovik numerals, test scores rose significantly
“Archaeologists have discovered an ancient rock carving of a boat on the banks of the Nile in Egypt. New research suggests that the engraving is up to 5,100 years old, predating Egypt’s First Dynasty.”
Human sacrifice in the High Atlas? In the early 20th century, the Seksawa practiced a March ritual where a person was bound and left atop a sacred summit perhaps echoing ancient sacrifices, as suggested by pierced figures in local rock art (Bronze Age).
July 22 1796 - Huzza! Huzza! I am always huzzaing, like a blockhead.
I want to be an old timey doctor who only prescribes either "the mountains" or "the sea"
Ilya Milstein A Couple On The Floor Of A Museum // A Library by the Tyrrhenian Sea
Lets focus on you first man. What are you
La Maison hantée: I Saw the Vaporous Outline of a Human Woman #artbots #redon
Glass head pendant on a gold earring Phoenician or Carthaginian 3rd–1st century B.C. Hellenistic Period
"This was first thought to illustrate a battle, but it is now considered more likely to represent the mystical struggle against evil spirits by shamans in trance."
Painted Pawnee Celestial Chart on Tanned Antelope or Deer Skin
