Sunday, September 19, 2021

Saturday, September 18, 2021

cattle in neolithic times ... it looks as if cattle may have been used for haulage much earlier than we used to imagine ... this has possible implications for the story of how the blue stones might have been moved out of west wales










Modelling the Arrival and Spread of Domesticated Cattle into Neolithic Britain

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14614103.2018.1536498


How we know about the use of cattle in neolithic times

https://aeon.co/ideas/how-we-discovered-that-europeans-used-cattle-8000-years-ago


The early movement of cattle out of iran and anatolia, the genetic history of domesticated cattle

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4445560/

 

Was the relationship of humankind and cattle very different in Neolithic times ?

https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/files/55559409/FULL_TEXT.PDF


Neolithic people feasted on beef in great gatherings near Stonehenge

https://www.ft.com/content/ee245550-b3fa-11e7-aa26-bb002965bce8


Small cattle in neolithic western europe, descendants of those from the middle east, may have been mated with the larger native aurochs

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/623063


Some suggest that Stonehenge might stand on an ancient migration route of  prehistoric cattle, the Aurochs ...

https://brian-mountainman.blogspot.com/2013/04/stonehenge-and-aurochs-migration-route.html


evidence in the bones of cattle suggest their being burdened 6,000 years ago ...

https://theecologist.org/2019/jan/24/humans-burdened-cattle-6000-years-ago


English Heritage have a very good educational website about Neolithic living ...

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/stonehenge/history-and-stories/history/food-and-feasting-at-stonehenge/



Monday, September 6, 2021

self-portraits, ii ...


 




















alice austen



























samuel fosso



























alphonse mucha



























umberto brunelleschi


























bernard fleetwood walker



























bruno surdo






















john byrne, again


























elliott erwitt



























fragonard
























antoine coypel



























flandrin freres above ... hippolyte flandrin below

























hyacinthe rigaud 1698 and 1730
























ingres, 1835 and 1858


NOTE: any discussion of self-portraiture is superficial until we take into account the very existence of MIRRORS ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror

... but back to the scrapbook ...




























ernst heineger, 1950 ... and ... 1960s



























angelica kauffmann 1781 and 1784
























jonathan richardson 1729 and 1731


























sir francis chantrey, 1800 and 1802



























sir allan ramsay

























thomas patch





















sir george hayter 1820s



























george chinnery 1832 and 1840



























david octavius hill and robert adamson, 1840s?























sir george scharf, 1870s












































william strang, 1890 and 1902















































william roberts, 1912 and 1965





























eveleen myers nee tennant, 1890s
















































alice pike barney 1896 and 1906
















































paolo veronese














































artemisia gentileschi











































de chirico, 1922 and 1948














































helen chadwick










































jo spence





































































francesca woodman















































rex whistler














































felix vallatton















































jaap kaas, 1940









































florine stettheimer

















































vincent van gogh
















































zinaida serebriakova









































jacek malczewski















































madame yevonde



























lorenzo ghiberti














































thomas frye, 1760







































eadweard muybridge, 1887















































nicolaas wijnberg




































theo kurpershoek

















































titian, both c.1562



























bunny yeager















































george lambert







... to be continued ... in Self-portraits, part iii ...