Cerf polychrome – Petit bison noir - Altamira Musée et Centre de Recherche - Santillana del Mar – Espagne
Photo Kroko pour Hominides.com
https://www.hominides.com/musees-et-sites/altamira-musee/
#artparietal #artprehistorique #prehistoricart #cerf #cervides #bison #altamira #santillanadelmar #peinturespolychromes #espagne #espagna

(Geminiで要約)
アルタミラで列車が逆走中にトレーラーと衝突、物的損害が発生
2025年7月25日金曜日の朝、アルタミラ市の**「アギラ」社入り口付近の線路と道路の交差点で、列車とトレーラーの衝突事故が発生しました。この事故により、多額の物的損害が出ましたが、幸いにも負傷者はいませんでした**。
報道によると、事故当時、列車は逆走操作中で、トレーラーの運転手が列車より先に交差点を渡ろうとしたとみられています。しかし、トレーラーの左側面に列車が衝突しました。
事故現場には市の交通・道路局の職員が駆けつけ、状況確認と責任の所在の判断を行いました。衝突後、トレーラーは重機を使って現場から撤去されました。 #Altamira
https://www.milenio.com/estados/tren-en-reversa-impacta-a-trailer-en-altamira

Rock Art on Screen: 12 Free Documentaries That Bring the Painted Past to Life

By Seth Chagi for World of Paleoanthropology

“We carry the torch of ancient storytellers each time we switch on a screen.” — Stoic reflection after too many late‑night documentary binges

Rock art feels simultaneously intimate and cosmic—handprints that whisper I was here across 30,000 years. The internet, bless its algorithmic heart, is brimming with free films that let us wander those caves and escarpments without the knee‑scrapes, bat guano, or UNESCO paperwork. Below are a dozen feature‑length (20 min +) documentaries your audience can stream today. I’ve grouped them by theme and noted what each one can teach us. Pop some popcorn (or Aquafor‑coated trail mix if you’re truly hardcore) and prepare to time‑travel.

1. Deep Time Immersion

TitleRuntimePlatformWhy Watch“Cave of Forgotten Dreams”89 minWatchDocumentaries.comWerner Herzog’s 3‑D glide through Chauvet (32 kya) is as close as most of us will get to those charcoal lions. Perfect for discussing preservation ethics, pigment chemistry, and the phenomenology of darkness.“Inside France’s Chauvet Cave” (DW Documentary)52 minYouTubeA more traditional science‑journalist tour that balances visuals with up‑to‑date uranium‑thorium dating and virtual‑reality replication work. Great classroom fodder on 3‑D scanning.

2. Rock Art & Global Narratives

TitleRuntimePlatformWhy Watch“Les secrets des fresques d’Amazonie”88 minARTE.tvTakes viewers into Colombia’s Serranía de la Lindosa cliff murals—tens of thousands of figures dated ≥12 kya—while foregrounding Indigenous perspectives and environmental stakes.“Oldest Cave Art Found in Sulawesi”24 minYouTube (Griffith Univ.)Concise but rich breakdown of the 45 kya pig panel & new 51 kya hunting scene; use it to spark debates on symbolic cognition outside Europe.“KIMBERLEY ROCK ART: A World Treasure”45 minYouTubeExplores Australia’s Gwion Gwion & Wandjina iconography, weaving in modern Aboriginal custodianship and cutting‑edge optically stimulated luminescence dating.“The Rock Art of Arnhem Land” (Part I)26 minYouTubeVeteran archaeologist Paul Taçon walks viewers through x‑ray kangaroos and Lightning Man motifs; ideal primer on superimposition sequences.

3. Mediterranean & Atlantic Europe

TitleRuntimePlatformWhy Watch“Rock‑Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus” (UNESCO/NHK)28 minUNESCO.orgSahara pastoralism in motion—perfect for stressing how climate shifts shaped iconographic changes.“Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin”28 minYouTube (UNESCO)Surveys 758 Iberian sites; includes rare footage of Levantine‑style hunters in eastern Spain. Good segue into discussions of pigment sourcing.“Prehistoric Rock Art of the Côa Valley & Siega Verde”30 minUNESCO.orgNight‑shot filming of open‑air engravings (≈25 kya onward) highlights why Foz Côa is a conservation victory.“Exploring the Ancient Art of Altamira”24 minYouTubeA guided VR‑style tour of Spain’s “Sistine Chapel of the Palaeolithic,” complete with replica cave construction details—great for public‑engagement case studies.

4. Decoding Symbolic Systems

TitleRuntimePlatformWhy Watch“How Art Made the World – Ep 2: The Day Pictures Were Born”59 minYouTube (BBC series)Frames cave art within a cognitive‑evolution story: why image‑making matters for social cohesion.**“Paleo Cave Art Mysteries” (Episode 1 of 3)22 minYouTube**Paleoanthropologist Neil Bockoven dives into dot‑and‑line signs (à la von Petzinger) and therianthropes; a bite‑sized springboard for symbol taxonomy exercises.

How to Use This Playlist – (of course, you could just be like me and want to watch them, but here are some fun activities for those of you who may be teachers, professors, and the like for your students to better engage with the content):

Chronological Viewing Party: Start with Acacus for Holocene climate context, swing through European Upper Palaeolithic masterpieces, then finish in the Amazon to spotlight New World debates.

Data‑Extraction Exercise: Have students log motifs, substrates, and dating techniques in a shared Zotero group to spot regional patterns.

Compare Custodianship Models: Contrast Indigenous‑led management in Australia with state oversight in France and Spain—fertile ground for ethical discussions.

DIY Experimental Archaeology: After watching the Altamira VR segment, try recreating blowing techniques with ochre and charcoal on butcher paper (outdoors, trust me).

Remember: every dash of ochre, every engraved aurochs, is a dialogue across millennia. Hit play, listen closely, and pass the story on.

Feel free to embed this post—just credit World of Paleoanthropology and link readers back to the documentary sources. Happy cave‑surfing!

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(Geminiで要約)
アルタミラ（タマウリパス州）で列車事故が発生しました。デコラ社のバンが機械故障により線路で立ち往生し、機関車と衝突しました。幸いなことに、負傷者はおらず、車両の損傷も軽微でした。交通整理員が現場に駆けつけ、運転手に対し、鉄道の踏切を尊重し、さらなる注意を払うよう促しました。機関車3701号はフェロメックス社のものでした。 #Altamira
https://voxpopulinoticias.com.mx/2025/06/accidente-con-locomotora-en-altamira-camioneta-quedo-varada/

(Geminiで要約)
このページは、2025年5月18日にミレニオ紙に掲載された、メキシコのアルタミラで発生した列車と自動車の衝突事故に関する記事です。
記事によると、自動車が列車に道を譲ろうとしなかったため、列車と衝突し、車に乗っていた未成年者2人が負傷しました。負傷した未成年者は病院に搬送され、事故の状況は交通当局が調査中です。 #Altamira
https://www.milenio.com/estados/choque-tren-auto-altamira-deja-menores-lesionados

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Altamira, Spain – UNESCO World Heritage Sites
#UNESCO #PatrimonioMundial #WorldHeritage #Welterbe #Philately #Filatelia #Sellos #Stamps #Timbres #Philatelie #Briefmarken #UNESCOWorldHeritage #Altamira #CuevaDeAltamira #SantillanaDelMar #LaPenaDeCandamo #TitoBustillo #Covaciella #Llonin #ElPindal #Chufin

Altamira – delayed boosting

Last week, Seth Larson published some ideas about being smart when "boosting", which is Mastodon's term for reblogging content and thus making it visible to your own followers. The original article can be found here, but my key takeaways are the following: Considering a single account, it is preferable for boosts performed by this account to be spread out over time. If they aren't, they will only happen when the account owner is currently active, and thus likely won't reach other users in other timezones. The boosts will also be clustered in everyone's timeline - and no one wants to see a dozen boosts by the same person in a row. Considering a single piece of content that gets boosted, it is again preferable if not all of its boosts happen at the same time but over the course of a day or two, so that it might reach a bigger audience, and reactions such as replies get spread out a bit as well. Seth's suggestion is to implement functionality in Mastodon clients to boost eventually instead of immediately - and I couldn't help picking up that idea for the app I'm experimenting with. […]

https://bocops.app/eng/2025/05/altamira-delayed-boosting/