The evolution of elephant depiction through the middle ages: https://www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anthropogenus/index.html ;) #ancientelephants #elephants #manuscripts #medieval
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History, archaeology, place-names & early lit. DPhil, FSA. Research: post-Roman Britain & Anglo-Saxon England; long-distance trade & contacts; landscape history. Occasional maker of maps. Cornwall/Lincolnshire/Cambridge
Elephant and Castle, 12th century: San Baudelio de Berlanga, Soria, Spain—https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Elephant_and_Castle_(Fresco_in_San_Baudelio,_Spain).jpg
An 11th-century Anglo-Saxon drawing of a not-particularly elephant-like elephant.... :) https://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/04/how-the-camel-got-the-hump.html
An elephant on the mid-12th-century Otranto cathedral mosaic, Italy https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Otranto,_cathedral,_mosaic_08.jpg
Citoyen MRThis is one of my favorite pictures. It feels like it was taken yesterday… but it was taken in a Paris public garden nearly a hundred years ago. Everything feels modern: the composition, the casualness, the daring clothes, haircuts, and accessories.
The colors are original: this is an #autochrome, using the first process for color #photography invented by the Lumière brothers in 1903.
The women are unknown, but I can't help wondering how they fared a few years later in nazi-occupied Paris.
James PoniewozikThe underrated advantage of Mastodon is that being in the "fediverse" makes you sound like you're on Star Trek
A more easily visible and substantial piece of the Late Roman walls of Horncastle is on view in the local library. #Roman #Archaeology #Lincolnshire #Libraries
My favourite section of the Roman walls of Horncastle, Lincolnshire, peeking out from the shelves of a local bookshop :) #Roman #Archaeology #Books
Map showing the landscape of the Red River estuary at Gwithian c.1000 AD and the location of the 5th- to 8th-century sites (via https://researchgate.net/publication/310596540_Gwithian_Scientific_dating_AMS_programme); the sites were positioned along the top of a linear sand dune (pictured), probably then located on the edge of a tidal inlet.