Growing up, London-based photographer Marco Kesseler spent a lot of time in nature. This has impacted his vibrant and poetic imagery, which focuses on portraiture,...
We are quick to notice and utilize some plant mutations while others go undetected.
Historians are looking into the possibility that the first Australians practised forms of agriculture and aquaculture, writes Cathy Pryor.
Researchers at Washington State University and 13 other institutions have found that the arc of prehistory bends towards economic inequality. In the largest study of its kind, the researchers saw disparities in wealth mount with the rise of agriculture, specifically the domestication of plants and large animals, and increased social organization.
American artists — from the painters of the Hudson River School to the influential Andrew Wyeth — have long depicted this country’s vast landscape as simultaneously a place of lonely desolation and of awe-inspiring grandeur. Following in this tradition, Andrea Kowch creates gorgeous and eerie acrylic paintings of open-skied pastoral landscapes. Inspired by a deep fascination with the natural world, Kowch’s works also tap into a common feeling of uneasiness many of us have toward the American rural – a place that is iconic for its beauty but that is also often associated with tedium, isolation and a clinging to negative aspects of the country's past.
The Star-gods Revealed by Leonard Farra Some people ,who have not read my books, The Pleiades Legacy (the Old World) and The Pleiades Legacy (the New World), have asked me what they are about. Well, the answer is that they reveal a revolutionary picture of the early history of civilised man based on what some […]
Lakapati is known as the kindest deity of the tagalog. Every time of harvest, the people raise their children in heaven and pray.
After the fall of Rome in Western Europe nobles constructed estates on manors. Their system of loyalties and protections is known as Feudalism.
Imagine a world in which nature is intertwined with the industrial: giant lotus flowers replace concrete skyscrapers; an urban forest forms a city constantly in shift through a tree’s life cycle. This is the imaginarium of Belgian architect Luc Schuiten. To discover his work is to fall under the spell of a colourful cosmos, where…
The Ministry of Agriculture's building in Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan in the Russian federation, is a magnificent work of eclectic architecture with a beautiful, massive wrought-iron tree that inspires pastoral agricultural images - and its construction was completed just a few years ago. The tree was designed to cast its shadow on the building's lobby below.
If you ever wondered what the earliest civilizations devised by humankind were like, stop down to see the current show at the Russian Museum before it leaves town. There you’ll see ceramic artifacts from—not the Egyptians, not the Sumerians—but the Trypillians, who occupied the region between the Danube and the Dnieper rivers extending north from the Black Sea, some nine thousand years ago. (The official dates given are 7400 BCE to 4700 BCE.) These mysterious people knew how to plow, kept domestic animals, grew grapes, and erected temples the look of which have been preserved in miniature clay replicas. About half of the area occupied by the Trypillians (also known as the Cucuteni) is within the borders of modern-day Ukraine, and the show, titled “ Antiquities From Ukraine: Golden Treasures and Lost Civilizations" includes artworks, weapons, jewelry and sundry other items from succeeding civilizations, too—the Cimmerians, the Scythians, and the Greeks, Johnny-Come-Latelys who didn’t begin to colonize the region until 800 B.C. Some of the large clay jugs on display are reminiscent of far more recent productions of the Hopi and other Southwestern peoples, and no less beautiful. Others carry the spiral ornamentation I associate with the Minoans. The tall, narrow, clay figurines bring to mind fertility goddesses of the Cycladic cultures of the Aegean. But the Trypillians pre-date all of these peoples by far. Considered all in all, the older artifacts on display fall into the category of genuinely Gee-Whiz “cool.” Perhaps the most intriguing, though not the most attractive, are a set of weird ceramic vessels that consist of several hollow binocular-shaped units fused together. (Maybe we’re looking at the world’s first kitsch candleholders?) As we follow the faux-flagstone pathway to the rear of the exhibit space, we meet up with the Scythians, who figure prominently in the history of Herodotus. The Scythians were talented horsemen and knew how to make bronze. They buried their kings surrounded by their household staff, who met their end for precisely that purpose. On the first anniversary of the king’s death, thirty of his top horsemen were killed and buried around the tomb, along with their horses. According to the museum text, Herodotus referred to the Scythians as “wiser than any nation on the face of the Earth." I’m not so sure. The Scythian warrior carried a gold cup on his belt, in imitation of Herakles, and a very fine one is on display. (We used to carry our cups on our belts while out on the trail in the BWCA, too.) Nearby, a golden headdress made of wafer-thin oak leaves and tiny acorns is also staggering. The small gallery at the back of the museum is given over to jewelry from the classical Greek, early Christian, and Byzantine eras, and it’s almost uniformly exquisite. (The buckle you see below is about one inch high.) Back home, I pulled my Herodotus from the shelf but found no reference to the overreaching wisdom of the Scythians. At one point he says, “The Black Sea is home to the most ignorant peoples of the earth.” He excludes the Scythians from this judgment, however, and goes on to praise them for having discovered what he calls “the cleverest solution I know of to the single most important matter in human life.” He commends them for carrying their homes behind their horses on wagons, rather than building villages and strongholds. “Since they are all expert at using their bows from horseback, and since they depend on cattle for food rather than on cultivated land, how could they fail to be invincible and elusive?” So elusive, indeed, that they have long since vanished from history.
Genetic material from old skeletons reveals pattern of migration from present-day Turkey.
Dans la France du XVIIIe siècle, le monde agricole représente 85 % de la population. Tout au long de ce siècle, la croissance démographique est continue et le royaume atteint enfin l’autosuffisance alimentaire. Une révolution agricole est-elle à l’origine de ces changements déterminants ? De nombreux petits progrès sont décelables dès les années 1720, dans un secteur qui offre un visage profondément traditionnel.
This structure now complements the Kazan Kremlin.
Pekka Halonen was a part of the blossoming of the Finnish arts at the end of the 19th century. Halonen’s paintings focus almost exclusively on nature, and people interacting with the natural …
Description Authentic, hand-made Japanese straw boots. Straw boots such as these were once a very common and convenient form of footwear in Japan, especially during winter. The boots are lightw…
A new study published in the journal Science has revealed that Neolithic farmers assimilated local hunter-gatherers into their communities in Scandinavia, according to a new report in Phys Org. The research sheds new light on the transition between a hunter-gatherer lifestyle and an agricultural way of life.
Given the length of the Georgian era we thought it might be fun to take a peek at how the Georgian ideas of what was fashionable and how it changed over the period. The comments have been taken dir…
Dinkel ist eine der vielen verschiedenen Arten von Urweizen, die in letzter Zeit erneut modern und angesagt geworden sind. Viele von denen wurden bis zu
The Ponte Vecchio Bridge straddles the River Arno in the heart of Florence. It was first documented in the year 996 and is believed to have been built during Roman times...
A Large Collection of ENNEAGRAMS 2 See also: A Large Collection of ENNEAGRAMS (part 1) Table of Contents: • Gnostic Circle ENNEAGRAM • Nine Categories of Temperament ENNEAGRAM table • Marko Rodin …
Basajaun literally means ‘Lord of the Forest’ and is one of the main characters in Basque Mythology however perhaps he was no myth at all.
What did medieval farmers need to do each year? A fourteenth-century guide breaks down their tasks month by month.
DNA from ancient skeletons has revealed how a complex patchwork of prehistoric migrations fashioned the modern European gene pool.
Discover the history and civilization of Ancient Greece - where it was located, when it started and ended, and what it achieved. Timeline and map included.
A new house constructed on an existing farm complex, which contained several, run down agricultural buildings that were out of character with the area. The new farmhouse is a traditional design in the Arts and Crafts style, which incorporates an existing barn into the fabric of the house.
Silly Farming Manuals Of The 14th Century - Captioned Portraits of Yore
Angiosperms, or flowering plants, can be classified into 2 groups—monocots and dicots. This infographic illustrates key differences.
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