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So, then I got lucky- got a scholarship to work on a summer dig at Chavín de Huantar (@monumentochavin) an amazing archaeological site in the Peruvian Andes!

There I realized that people visualized science for a living. And I was immediately hooked! ImageImage
Chavín is an amazing pre-Incan Unesco site, with some of the first evidence of organized religion.
Pilgrims would come, imbibe drugs, and go into underground tunnels, with light shafts and water chutes to create drama so stone carvings seemed like a personal encounter with god!
But, I discovered something else there - drawing lithics! When you draw a #lithic, you have to know how it was made. You start at the point of percussion (first impact) and work out, mapping chips and depths. So much info from #penandink!

#Archaeologicalillustration is awesome Image
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