"Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse. Become the light." -Rumi
I am an anthropology and foreign language student.
I'm currently learning Arabic, and loving everything about it.
I am half Italian and half Iranian.
I have a love for all things middle eastern and ancient.
Someday, I will be an archeologist.
As much as I love to travel, there will always be a special place in my heart for southern California ❤
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Cueva de las Manos (Cave of Hands):
“…A cave or series of caves located in the province of Santa Cruz, Argentina…famous for the paintings of hands by indigenous inhabitants some 9,000 years ago. The composition of the inks is mineral and therefore cannot be carbon dated, so the age of the paintings was calculated from the bone-made pipes used to spray the paint onto the wall blocked by the hand.”
Not sure how old that quote is but I believe paintings can be dated using accelerator mass spectrometry
Books are stupid, read a fucking scroll.
Scrolls are stupid, read a fucking tablet.
Tablets are stupid, read a fucking cave painting.
Cave paintings are stupid, listen to an elder tell you the story of your people.
Elders are stupid, make up your own fucking stories.
(Source: little-blackbook)
ParisParisParis
(Source: fuckmenumb)
Archaeological News: Bronze age man's lunch: a spoonful of nettle stew
Six boats hollowed out of oak tree trunks are among hundreds of intact artefacts from 3,000 years ago that have been discovered in the Cambridgeshire fens, the Observer can reveal.
The scale, quality and condition of the objects, the largest bronze age collection ever found in one place in…
26 days until Paris.
New year, new country!!!
Alhambra, Granada, Andalusia, Spain
What we do in Anthropology…
A. boisei, A. afarensis, A. africanus.
