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sapiens: a brief history of humankind

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three small terracotta ducks, Cyprus 600BC-500BC.

(link 2, 3)

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Split-twig figurines from the Archaic Period of southwest North America

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faces dated from 2,000 years ago carved in stone at the Lajes Archaeological Site in Manaus, Brazil

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The ancient world was full of textile masterpieces we can only imagine… but most of them have rotted away. So few of them have come down to us in these days that we think of metal and stone as the primary mediums for the oldest artworks. But there were tapestries and fabric work that would have rivaled the finest wrought gold and iron and the first cave paintings.

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AI research uncovers 300 ancient etchings in Peru's Nazca desert

obsessed with these little guys....

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Every time I think too deeply about how we've found the bones of thousands and thousands of years old ancient people and we've given them people names I just

Guys, do you get it? We put to name these ancient peoples whose bodies vaguely resemble us and we go, "you're one of us, and we will give you a name that we have invented". They are not here to have a voice for themselves, but they are here to be remembered.

To be named is to be loved.

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My new favorite genre of picture is a very special thing that most animals (and humans!) do: face nuzzling as an act of greeting/comfort/intimacy. thank God that this is happening all over the world right now

Isn’t it wonderful?!

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This Day in History:

VII IDVS SEP<TEM>BRES Q POSTVMIVS ROGAVIT A ATTIVM PEDICARIM

On September 7th Quintus Postumius asked Aulus Attius if I could fuck him (in the ass).

CIL IV.8805

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your scent processing being so close to memory in your brain is insane sometimes you step outside and take a whiff and go "ah, it smells like playing pokemon emerald in my third grade afterschool program in the crisp september of 2006"

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"It took me years to realize that Inca and pre-Columbian architecture is directly related to the structure of the corn kernels. In a western model of thought, one might judge the shapes as irregular, but in a universal thought, everything is a correlation between the cosmos, science, art, and humanity (...) The organic growth forms are represented in a logarithmic way, and these pentagonal, hexagonal, and heptagonal blocks coincide with the corn forms. The lack of symmetry in the walls helps dissipate the energy of the earthquakes. They were incredible engineers. Japanese researchers studied Machu Picchu after the Kobe earthquake and realized that these Inca structures had not been damaged by it. " - Juan Casco

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These clay dogs (~645 BC) were substitutes for real dogs in a ritual from ancient Nineveh, located along the Tigris River in what is now northern Iraq. Well-trained, effective guard dogs were probably too highly valued to kill, hence the substitution of clay figurines. Each figurine may have represented an actual, living dog who bore that name. The ritual required that the clay dogs be painted two each of five colors, with their names written on them, and buried in groups of ten on either side of a gateway’s foundation. The ritual was thought to magically transfer the dogs’ protection to the gates. The dogs have fierce names, like, “Expeller of evil”, “Don’t think, bite!”, “Biter of his foe”, and “Catcher of the enemy”. The dogs are a breed of large, muscular mastiff-type dogs with prick or half-prick ears, a round head with a pronounced stop and heavy muzzle, large paws, and a tightly curled, chow-like tail. They are in the British Museum.

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saw a video that was like “everybody comment what you did today so we can see how everyone experienced something different” and the comments have me tearing up on this train. what the fuckkkk. the human experience

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Cave paintings from Magura Cave, Bulgaria, estimated to be around 10k-8k years old depicting animals and people, hunting, ritual dances, and deities

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Two knights on horseback rendered in Hebrew micrography in the margins of the Yonah Pentateuch, 13th century.

Source: British Library, Add. MS 21160 fol. 192v and 201v

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Cave canes!