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1/9 #Colonial #Victorian tropes of #primitive and #civilised are never funny @BBCNews @BBCWorld. They were actively used to justify colonialism.
Small-scale societies are as complex as large states, and values and morals are #HumanUniversals. Also, #Neanderthals were smart!
Small-scale societies are as complex as large states, and values and morals are #HumanUniversals. Also, #Neanderthals were smart!
2/9 #Hunter-gatherers live in small groups but have large social networks. San societies in southern #Africa maintain these by exchanging ostrich eggshell beads across hundreds of kilometers. And they have been doing this for over 30,000 years.
pnas.org/content/117/12…
pnas.org/content/117/12…
3/9 #Aboriginal societies in #Australia have complex ways of transmitting knowledge across space and time. Their #OralHistories preserved information on the impact of #SeaLevelRise at the end of the last #IceAge over 10,000 years.
scientificamerican.com/article/ancien…
scientificamerican.com/article/ancien…
The art of rock carving is present in all regions of Gilgit Baltistan, mainly in the districts of Diamir, Hunza & Nagar and Baltistan in Pakistan. Speaking specifically of Baltistan, these engravings can be seen on former settlements and popular old routes along the Indus
and Shyok. Dr. Ahmad Hasan Dani has classified these rock engravings into four categories. The oldest category includes rock carvings dating from at least two millennia BC and even dating back to the fifth or sixth millennium BC. The inhabitants were hunter-gatherers
who knew how to make stone tools (arrowhead) and most probably they hunted in groups. (The rock engravings show a bow, an arrow and a group of hunters hunting). After these, the second group includes images of demigods, herders and communities and shepherds, probably nomads
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Image of स्वस्तिक on a #Petroglyph in #India (At ~3900 mtr altitude)
Petroglyph = Carving on rock/rock piece #RockArt
• Place = Manda village, Zanskar Valley (#Ladakh)
• Dating = 50 BCE (~2000 yrs ago)
Pic 1 – Zanskar Valley on Map
Pic 2 – Found Petroglyph
Image of स्वस्तिक on a #Petroglyph in #India (At ~3900 mtr altitude)
Petroglyph = Carving on rock/rock piece #RockArt
• Place = Manda village, Zanskar Valley (#Ladakh)
• Dating = 50 BCE (~2000 yrs ago)
Pic 1 – Zanskar Valley on Map
Pic 2 – Found Petroglyph
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~0.6 mtr stone piece has a carving of स्वस्तिक using a sharp stone tool. Such an art is first time discovered in this region and probably in #India too.
Pic 3 – स्वस्तिक image highlighted
Pic 4 – Traditional स्वस्तिक (Understanding Purpose)
~0.6 mtr stone piece has a carving of स्वस्तिक using a sharp stone tool. Such an art is first time discovered in this region and probably in #India too.
Pic 3 – स्वस्तिक image highlighted
Pic 4 – Traditional स्वस्तिक (Understanding Purpose)
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From a nearby sanctuary, स्वस्तिक variant carved on a stone plate (See the image) is also found (~50 BCE)
It is not a petroglyph but an important connecting link of Swastika with #Ladakh region from the same era as of the petroglyph depicted in the above tweet
From a nearby sanctuary, स्वस्तिक variant carved on a stone plate (See the image) is also found (~50 BCE)
It is not a petroglyph but an important connecting link of Swastika with #Ladakh region from the same era as of the petroglyph depicted in the above tweet
So I've broken the 1k follower mark (h/t @JacquelynGill), and I've recently wrapped up fieldwork surveying #rockart in the Colombian Amazon. What better way to celebrate both than a thread of my favourite fieldwork snaps from the Guaviare River? (1/20
The Guaviare is a mighty river that rises in the Andes and flows west-to-east into the Orinoco, eventually emptying into the Atlantic. I was working (along with Colombian colleagues not on Twitter) near the Guayabero confluence, an unusual hilly area of narrows and rapids (2/
Brief background: we aimed to create an in situ record of known rock art sites in the region. To do this, we used structure-from-motion photogrammetry to make to-scale 3D reconstructions of panels from sets of 2D photographs. The Guaviare is extremely dense in sites... (3/
