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Oooooh thank you!!
A huge congrats!
Love, love, love this drawing by Giovanni Bruzzo of paleolithic children in front of the Balzi Rossi caves! (courtesy of Fabio Negrino)
Can a mountain really be cursed? @amayor.bsky.social explores the folklore behind natural history.
Thanks, Ben! And, Darcy, hello!! Always happy to talk Endlings anytime. Looking forward to the show!
Ah, so very sorry.
Hahaha for that #GenuineFake vibe
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CONGRATS!!!
Some cave and ochre scenes from this month’s research trip in Spain. 🎨😍🥾✨
Bienvenidos al Pliestoceno
Tito Bustillo & El Pindal Caves. Replica of mural. And me scraping cave sediment off my shoe to make pigment powder.
Red ocher crust forming on bedrock in a roadcut on Redwood Road, Oakland.
Ocher forming on fresh pyrite-infused metavolcaniclastics in the Oakland Hills. Before Contact, the gossan here was a strategic trade asset for the local Ohlone tribe. Americans mined it out for paint pigment, then mined the pyrite lode beneath it for ~30 years.
Atapuerca and experimental archaeology!
This set of Ugandan pigments from Paintmakers of Lira is STUNNING!!! Taking time out of writing this morning to play around with the beautiful red-orange-brown Bala Maroon.
Can’t wait for this!
Day 5 (last day!) of Ochre Research Recap from this year’s NEH Public Scholar grant. Pigments, ochres, and bits of earth that I’ve collected over the past year.
Day 4 of Ochre Research Recap from this year’s NEH Public Scholar grant. Bonjour Roussillon! The Luberon region has a rainbow landscape of ochres that have been mined for centuries. Today, they are part of the region’s eco-tourism efforts to connect visitors to landscape and history.
Thank you, that's very kind! I've loved diving into this project!!
Day 3 Ochre Research Recap via this year’s NEH Public Scholar grant. In March, I attended a Wild Pigments and Foraged Paints workshop in Venice taught by the brilliant Caroline Ross and hosted by Artisans of Now. This was all about the “here and now” of earth pigments!
Day 2 of ochre research recap from NEH Public Scholar grant: Hello, Paviland Cave & the Red Lady!The site was excavated in 1823 by a team that included William Buckland, Lewis Dillwyn, & Mary Talbot. They uncovered the burial of an individual, beads, ivory rods, flints, & mammoth skull. And ochre.
Over the past year, work for my ochre book has been supported by the NEH through a Public Scholar grant. As the grant wraps up this week, I want to share parts of the ochre research I’ve explored these past twelve months. First up, an urban ochrescape – London!
And the puff quilt is finally finished! 🥳🧵🪡
Designed with my beloved Canyonlands geology in mind, each color is a different geologic strata. #artsci #geology #canyonlands
It’s UK pub day for Women In the Valley of the Kings! (Been out in the US since July 16.) So excited!!!
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1250...
Ah brilliant!
Congrats!!
Congrats!!! Can’t wait to read it!!
A book cover image, featuring Gertie the Dinosaur, a large Sauropod animated in the 1920s in a city park, with various people looking on. A showman sits on top of Gertie, and New York skyscrapers can be seen in the background. Featuring the text - Palaeontology in Public: Popular science, lost creatures and deep time, Edited by Chris Manias
Still another six months to go until the book is available (via UCL Press as an open access publication!), but we now have a catalogue page and a cover - by @markwitton.bsky.social, and featuring Gertie the Dinosaur in centre stage
www.uclpress.co.uk/collections/...
I just love this story.
My latest in Nature: ‘Rainbow’, ‘like a cricket’: every bird in South Africa now has an isiZulu name
www.nature.com/articles/d41...