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Protected: Long nosed peccaries (mylohyus nasutus)
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Protected: Mixotoxodon are distant relatives of modern day horses & rhinoceroses. That weighed 4 tons
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Isn’t the lama cute? ancient lama: hemiaucheia
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > The genus name is derived from the ancient greek: hēmi-, “half” and auchēn, “neck”Discovered in south America in 1880; and,Described in north America, in 1883, by Edward Drinker Cope. Found in Canada to central Mexico. Including SE Alberta. And, in Floridia, South Carolina,…
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Aurochs (Bos primigenius) are neolithic ancestors to modern cattle
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > With a recorded shoulder height of more than 70 inches and horns poking out to more than 62 inches. The aurochs are considered to be the wildest ancestor of modern domestic cattle. And, if that wasn’t enough. There are one of…
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Slugs & snails were obvious food & cultural resources. Early hominins likely noticed them; &, homo sapiens used them. For both food, art, & jewlery
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > From opportunistic foraging to organized farming and gourmet cuisine. Slugs and snails have been around 150 thousand years ago, evidence from north Africa, in Libya. Shows humans were collecting, piercing, and eating snails In Europe, 30 thousand years ago, there is…
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In Italy & its islands Sicily, & Sardinia; & the territory of Malta. There was a critical biogeographic crossroad for testudines during the Late Pleistocene, 126 to 11.7 thousand years ago
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > During the pleistocene, islands in and around Italy combined. It was a period of lower sea levels, and land connections. There were also phases of isolation. And, strong climatic gradients. This conditions made distinct testudines (turtles and tortoises). Including some mainland…
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Integrating fossil evidence, paleoecology, & regional variation. Late pleistocene turtles & tortoises, (testudines), in Crete, the Thermaikos Gulf; & Greece have a research base
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > 126 to 11.7 thousand years ago, Greece formed part of a dynamic Mediterranean landscape shaped by glacial cycles, flutuating sea levels, and biogenographic isolation. Within this setting, testudines were among the most resilient reptilian groups. Who occupied terrestrial, freshwater and occaisonally…
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Largely corresponding to modern Spain & Portugal, the Iberian peninsula was one of Europe’s most important pleistocene refugia. Its habitat included testudines, or turtles & tortoises
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > During the late pleistocene, 126,000–11,700 years ago, relatively mild Mediterranean and Atlantic climates, allowed species to persist while populations elsewhere declined, or vanished under glacial pressure Fossil and archaeological records from caves, river terraces, and coastal plains show that Iberia supported…
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In the genus thunnus, Atlantic bluefin tuna or thunnus thynnus. Refers to a fast, large, migratory pelagic fish
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Most marine fish remains from the Levant’s early neolithic or pre-pottery period are shallow-water, lagoonal or brackish speciesNot large open-ocean fish like tuna. The larger tuna bones, where found though. They appear mainly in the archaeological record outside the Levant, such…