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!
There I realized that people visualized science for a living. And I was immediately hooked!
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!
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
#Archaeologicalillustration is awesome
Image ALT TEXT: Line pen and ink drawings of obsidian stone tools
Image ALT TEXT: Two pictures of curator working on excavation at archaeological site Chavín de Huantar, drawing and holding pole for digital mapping.
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