#holocene
A Traveller Wandering
Alice “Allie” Cook watches a retreating flock of passenger pigeons (Ectopistes migratorius) – Cass County, Michigan c. 1866
Ink & watercolour, 2017
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“But presently the gray dawn stole over the world, the birds piped up, then the sun rose and poured light and comfort all around, everything was fresh and dewy and fragrant, and life was a boon again”
– Mark Twain
Ectopistes migratorius (Passenger pigeon)
Extinct 1914
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Reconstructed face of a 4,500 year old dog from Orkney- the world’s first canine forensic reconstruction.
This skull was one of 24 excavated from the chambered tomb of Cuween Hill:
The tomb was used 600 years earlier for the burial of human remains before it was used for dog burials.
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Earth science, James Cook University
Fire and Environmental Change in Northern Australian Savannas during the Holocene
