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Thread: Asian Leopard. The real thing, and depicted on Neolithic pottery found in Iran, standing over the zig zag design depicting flowing water... Leopard is the second most popular animal
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Thread: #Caturday you say. The two kitties are identified correctly as lions. But I don't think this is an ordinary bull...This looks like a buffalo to me...Do you see the
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Thread: Beginnen donderwolken op te doemen, stook dan vlug uw donderbloemen (When clouds with thunder approach, burn then your poppies fast) - Dutch saying In Flanders the local name for
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Thread: Objects made of stone, excavated in houses of the Mesolithic Lepenski vir culture, 6300 – 5990 BC, Danube Iron Gates gorge, eastern Serbia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepenski_Vir All have carvings on the
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Thread (longish but hopefully interesting): While reading about the sudden collapse of the Balkan Neolithic cultures, like Vinča culture (pic) at the end of the 5th mill BC, I came
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Thread (longish but hopefully interesting): This is Dolmen of Pierre-Alot, France...I would here like to talk about three interesting articles I read this week, which together, might shed some new
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Thread: This is one of the most amazing things I have seen...Neolithic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangshao_culture burial, discovered in Puyang, Henan Province, Northwestern China and dated to 4000BC... A person was buried between
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Thread: Ceramic vase - Naqada II, Egyptian Predynastic period 3500 BC. Dim 8,5x7,6 cm. Currently in: Museo Arqueologico Nacional, Madrid, Spain...Officially depicts a hunting scene... Have you seen this article?
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Thread (longish): During the excavations of the the Temple Repositories at Knossos, among many early 2nd millennium BC faience (glazed ceramic) objects, Arthur Evans unearthed ceramic crocuses and models of
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Thread: Scheibenschlagen (Disc beating) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScheibenschlagenThe "disc beating" is a fire ritual in which burning wooden discs are hurled into valleys from hill or mountain sides...The ritual is performed
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Thread: Inlaid ivory panel depicting "lioness devouring a boy"... From the palace of Ashurnasirpal II, part of an almost identical pair, originally part of a piece of furniture, perhaps a
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Thread (longish): This is Diduch or Did, the most important decoration made in the Carpathian villages in Western Ukraine during the traditional winter holidays, originally Winter Solstice, now Christmas... It
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