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bookcoversonly · 1 month

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Title: The Last Neanderthal | Author: Claire Cameron | Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (2017)

#books #The Last Neanderthal #Claire Cameron

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chestnutroan · 1 year

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Stop squirming!

Neanderthals finger combing the tangles out of each other’s hair after washing

#art #neanderthals #love #artists on tumble #my ocs #any given time. i will be thinking about neanderthals 🤧#likes and reblogs are super duper appreciated!#the love on the last neanderthal piece meant the world to me 😭😭😭

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hedgehog-moss · 3 months

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Inspired by your last ask! What are the best French books you’ve read that have no English translation yet? I read Play Boy and Qui a tué mon père (really loved the latter) last year and it feels so fun to read something that other Americans can’t access yet

I'm too nervous to make any list of the Best XYZ Books because I don't want to raise your expectations too high! But okay, here's my No English Translation-themed list of books I've enjoyed in recent years. I tried to make it eclectic in terms of genre as I don't know what you prefer :)

Biographies

• Le dernier inventeur, Héloïse Guay de Bellissen: I just love prehistory and unusual narrators so I enjoyed this one; it's about the kids who discovered the cave of Lascaux, and some of the narration is written from the perspective of the cave <3 I posted a little excerpt here (in English).

• Ces femmes du Grand Siècle, Juliette Benzoni: Just a fun collection of portraits of notable noblewomen during the reign of Louis XIV, I really liked it. For people who like the 17th century. I think it was Emil Cioran who said his favourite historical periods were the Stone Age and the 17th century but tragically the age of salons led to the Reign of Terror and Prehistory led to History.

• La Comtesse Greffulhe, Laure Hillerin: I've mentioned this one before, it's about the fascinating Belle Époque French socialite who was (among other things) the inspiration for Proust's Duchess of Guermantes. I initially picked it up because I will read anything that's even vaguely about Proust but it was also a nice aperçu of the Belle Époque which I didn't know much about.

• Nous les filles, Marie Rouanet: I've also recommended this one before but it's such a sweet little viennoiserie of a book. The author talks about her 1950s childhood in a town in the South of France in the most detailed, colourful, earnest way—she mentions everything, describes all the daft little games children invent like she wants ageless aliens to grasp the concept of human childhood, it's great.

I'll add Trésors d'enfance by Christian SIgnol and La Maison by Madeleine Chapsal which are slightly less great but also sweet short nostalgic books about childhood that I enjoyed.

Fantasy

• Mers mortes, Aurélie Wellenstein: I read this one last year and I found the characters a bit underwhelming / underexplored but I always enjoy SFF books that do interesting things with oceans (like Solaris with its sentient ocean-planet), so I liked the atmosphere here, with the characters trying to navigate a ghost ship in ghost seas...

• Janua Vera, Jean-Philippe Jaworski: Not much to say about it other than they're short stories set in a mediaeval fantasy world and no part of this description is usually my cup of tea, but I really enjoyed this read!

Essays / literary criticism / philosophy

• Eloge du temps perdu, Frank Lanot: I thought this was going to be about idleness, as the title suggests, and I love books about idleness. But it's actually a collection of short essays about (French) literature and some of them made me appreciate new things about authors and books I thought I knew by heart, so I enjoyed it

• Le Pont flottant des rêves, Corinne Atlan: Poetic musings about translation <3 that's all

• Sisyphe est une femme, Geneviève Brisac: Reflections about the works of female writers (Natalia Ginzburg, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, etc) that systematically made me want to go read the author in question, even when I'd already read & disliked said author. That's how you know it's good literary criticism

Let's add L'Esprit de solitude by Jacqueline Kelen which as the title suggests, ponders the notion of solitude, and Le Roman du monde by Henri Peña-Ruiz which was so lovely to read in terms of literary style I don't even care what it was about (it's philosophy of foundational myths & stories) (probably difficult to read if you're not fully fluent in French though)

Did not fit in the above categories:

• Entre deux mondes by Olivier Norek—it's been translated in half a dozen languages, I was surprised to find no English translation! It's a crime novel and a pretty bleak read on account of the setting (the Calais migrant camp) but I'd recommend it

• Saga, Tonino Benacquista: Also seems to have been translated in a whole bunch of languages but not English? :( I read it ages ago but I remember it as a really fun read. It's a group of loser screenwriters who get hired to write a TV series, their budget is 15 francs and a stale croissant and it's going to air at 4am so they can do whatever they want seeing as no one will watch it. So they start writing this intentionally ridiculous unhinged show, and of course it acquires Devoted Fans

Books that I didn't think existed in English translation but they do! but you can still read them in French if you want

• Scrabble: A Chadian Childhood, Michaël Ferrier: What it says on the tin! It's a short and well-written account of the author's childhood in Chad just before the civil war. I read it a few days ago and it was a good read, but then again I just love bittersweet stories of childhood

• On the Line, Joseph Ponthus: A short diary-like account of the author's assembly line work in a fish factory. I liked the contrast between the robotic aspect of the job and the poetic nature of the text; how the author used free verse / repetition / scansion to give a very immediate sense of the monotony and rhythm of his work (I don't know if it's good in English)

• The End of Eddy, Edouard Louis: The memoir of a gay man growing up in a poor industrial town in Northern France—pretty brutal but really good

• And There Was Light, Jacques Lusseyran: Yet another memoir sorry, I love people's lives! Jacques Lusseyran lost his sight as a child, and was in the Resistance during WWII despite being blind. It's a great story, both for the historical aspects and for the descriptions of how the author experiences his blindness

• The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception, Emmanuel Carrère: an account of the Jean-Claude Romand case—a French man who murdered his whole family to avoid being discovered as a fraud, after spending his entire adult life pretending to be a doctor working at the WHO and fooling everyone he knew. Just morbidly fascinating, if you like true crime stuff

#ask #book recs #the book i started reading last night is The Naked Neanderthal by Ludovic Slimak and i also didn't #expect it to have an english translation but it does #i'm only at the beginning and so far it's philosophical ponderings about what kind of creature the neanderthals were #if they were humans in a different way than us. with a different kind of intelligence #and how to understand it without projecting our own way of being in the world onto this other humanity #sorry to quote cioran again but it reminds me of when he said every generation misses the good old days and #if we retrace our steps from regret to regret we'll find the original regret #our nostalgia for a time when humans weren't yet human

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yasmeensh · 5 months

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About Neanderteen's blind sister, I was thinking about some of her idle habits. Playing with her hands a lot, her nails, grabbing onto grass and mud when sitting down. Also shortly after their introduction, her brother gets her an epic wolf pelt. I need to draw her in it >:)

#personal project #paleolithic #Neanderthal #stone age #yes she's fluting in that last illustration #there are several studies of children's finger fluting on cave walls #As far as I know.. the oldest Neanderthal markings are flutings as well. dunno if it's by a child or not #anyways I do want to add a scene with her playing on cave walls. She'll never see it but because they are engraved she can feel them #especially if she visits again... omg now I have to add a timeskip scene where she's grown up and visits the cave again. Feel the marks.#thank you tumblr tagging brain dump

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mortellanarts · 8 months

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time passes us by

#okay this is gonna be the last one for a bit I think 🥹#anyways... do you ever think about name meanings #and do you ever get slightly frustrated at going in circles when trying to research symbolism stuff #I missed drawing flowers 🧡#zero escape #zero escape spoilers #999 spoilers #9 hours 9 persons 9 doors #akane kurashiki #aoi kurashiki #my art #did you know archeologists found hollyhocks besides skeletons as far as 60.000 years ago indicating burial rituals from neanderthals #they were also found in the coffins of egyptian mummies #and rose madders were called ''herb of mars'' by herbalist and physician Nicholas Culpeper #sorry but I had to roleplay uchikoshi character dialogue for that how could I not put the wikipedia diving to good use

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partyhorn · 3 months

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#my art #(doodle from last night while talking with friends. anyone remember those magical girl neanderthal comics i made last summer?)

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anthropotheisms · 1 year

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i was stricken by the need to draw a neanderthal tonight, so i referenced this model from the natural history museum :)

#neanderthals #he doesn't look quite right. but he surely won't be the first or last that i draw!

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skyradiant · 1 year

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Meet your relatives: The hominids featured in Walking With Cavemen.

#walking with cavemen #walking with #human #australopithecus #paranthropus #homo rudolfensis #homo habilis #homo ergaster #homo erectus #gigantopithecus #homo heidelbergensis #neanderthal #homo sapiens #mine #the last one is lower quality because it was one of the few good forward-facing shots with modern humans in the last episode #and it's from the ending so it makes for a fitting note to end on #q

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swordheld · 2 years

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i listen to violins and other instruments as they gather together atop themselves in all their melodies and it is the closest experience i have to articulating what wind feels like; the rising of it, the soaring, how a thing like this can be everything if we only wish it, how it can fall and fly and wonder and witness everything, all at once, and the stories it could tell, each for every star.

i listen to orchestral music and i wonder what the first instrument maker felt in that final moment of creation. to finish the last curve-cut on the smooth surface of bone, and use your own breath to bring it back to a whole new tune of life.

what would it be, to hold the very first instance of an idea to make something that exists only for the kind of connection that is not equivalent to any language: untranslatable. something entirely new, light and incredible, held in the palm of your hand, to echo a sound that will carry on the winds of time for millennium and millennium until it rests in the hands of a future you do not have the even wildest ideas or dreams to fathom. can you imagine it?

to hold such a gift, an invention, right there, under all that brilliant sky.

to not even know the impact of a little thing you spent time creating, that you hold in your small hands on the small patch of landscape you call home; the impact of that one single piece of creativity has for all time to come.

what does that feel like? if i were to guess, i would believe, maybe: joy. so much joy it rivals even that prehistoric night sky, even their brightest star.

#thinking again about the vulture-bone neanderthal flute ......#how such a frail thing could last so long. what memories does it hold? what songs did it sing? what air did it know?#oh .. under what stars did it perform? in how many pockets did it safely journey in?#i think of music like stratigraphic soliloquies (think. sediment. and layering of dirt layers being able to see time through the earth.) -#and i get caught up in it? the idea that we start with a base layer and add and add and accumulate until it's something entirely new.#scribbles.#emo ab music!!!! can you believe we are able to have and hold and create this wonderous thing!! these vibrating soundwaves!!!#can you believe we are able to do it ourselves?? and to be able to share it with others and inspire them? to give something away -#that sparks a whole new idea in someone else? the joy of that. the gift of it.#there is nothing like music and the wonder it can hold.#who even knows if there was an earlier instrument and we just haven't found it yet? or it was lost to the erosion of time?#how do i send a love letter back in time for a thank you there are not words or symphonies enough to give an accurate telling of my thanks?#of everything i have to hold and give because of the time spent on that one creation?#can you believe it? just how a handful of hours / can change everything?

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lilith-vodkaaunt-of-demons · 22 days

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I just rewatched Don't Look Up for the umpteenth time, and it's got me in kind of a weird headspace. Like, a sort of soft acceptance of an event that isn't guaranteed yet, but feels kind of inevitable. Like, should I keep trying to better my place on the ladder if the world is gonna end in a few months, maybe? Or should I make that bet and say fuck it, live fast, die young, we're all gonna meet our maker soon anyway?

It's got me in this sort of Macabre mood, where I'm curious if I could look at a Nuclear Explosion if I wore the Eclipse Glasses I got a few weeks ago when I went to watch the Eclipse. Or would that even be necessary since I live in a small town that isn't close to any strategically important things, so maybe my particular Apocalypse will be the slow, starving kind.

It's weird, because it doesn't feel like a panic attack. My heart isn't racing, and I don't feel like the sky is falling, it just feels like we've reached the end. The timer has counted down.

I'm in a funk.

#don't look up #I'm in a funk #weird headspace #Do you think the last Neanderthal knew they were the last? Or did they think theirs was just another ordinary death?

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wintersettled · 9 months

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i am once again thinking about the hilichurl rogue :(

the first time i fought it was actually yesterday after climbing a mountain in fontaine cause i wanted to see what it was and the drops really reminded me of neanderthal flower burials + how both neanderthals and hilichurls are/have been seen as primitive beings despite tons of evidence to the contrary (ignoring what we know about khaenri'ah since the curse of the wild seems to cause them to be catatonic for a period of time).

theres tons of literature on how neanderthals actually appear to be similar to homo sapiens and have higher mental functioning as evidenced through their tools, their presumed social structures (taking care of injured/disabled neanderthals rather than abandoning them as would be thought of beings focused only on survival), but most notably for this the evidence of "flower burials" at Shanidar.

Basically, two neanderthals were found buried in primarily medicinal flowers (indicating their possible role in their group). I believe there were 11(?) other neanderthals found there who appeared to have been crushed by rockfall whos ages (if my memory is correct) were from around 7 to mid 40s. The reason i bring this up is because of one of the flowers found at Shanidar: Achillea/Yarrows. I find these flowers to be fairly similar in appearance of the petals (excluding size) to the hilichurl rogues drops

Now, each drops description:

A Flower Yet to Bloom "a wildflower that a hilichurl rogue treasured. it was plucked before it could bloom. the hilichurl takes nothing with it in its sojourn across the wilderness save this flower."

Treasured Flower "a wild flower that a hilichurl picked bereft of any special qualities. flowers can be used as gifts or offerings to express ones feelings in many cultures"

for this description in specific i would actually like to quote Ralph S Solecki's "The Implications of the Shanidar Cave Neanderthal Flower Burial"

"Under normal circumstances, today, in many cultures, flowers and death go together, as one can see a funeral corteges and burials. The association of flowers as tokens of esteem, respect, or for the joy of looking at [...]. According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 'the flower has been a universal symbol of beauty in the civilizations of the world. Confucius included its cultivation among the arts that were essential to a man of culture.' We pride ourselves thinking that we know a lot about Neanderthal man, but the association of flowers with Neanderthals adds a whole new dimension to our knowledge of him, and his humanistic nature."

Wanderer's Blooming Flower "a blooming wild flower that a hilichurl rogue treasured, bereft of any special qualities. the eternal outlander asks not for reward, but only to see their deeds come to fruition"

TLDR (abstract lol); hilichurl rogue drops remind me of the neanderthal flower burials found at shanidar

below the cutoff are some sources if you want to do further reading on neanderthals

(im not an anthropologist or even studying it btw but here are some articles on neanderthals i used for a bibliography on neanderthal spirituality in an anth class last winter in case you want to read up on it, theyre formatted in SAA kinda)

Appenzeller, Tim

2013 Neanderthal Culture: Old Masters. Nature 497:302-304.

Hochadel, Oliver

2020 The Flower People of Shanidar: Telling a New Tale of Neanderthal Brothers. In

Narratives and Comparisons, edited by Martin Carrier, Rebecca Mertens, and Carsen Reinhardt, pp. 99-122. Bielefeld University Press, Bielefeld. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839454152-005

Mitchell, Mary Shirley

2021 Geoarchaeological Methods and the Intentionality of Neanderthal Burial. Furthering

Perspectives 11:29-41. https://mountainscholar.org/bitstream/handle/10217/233626/JOUF_FurtheringPerspectives_vol10.pdf?sequence=1#page=29

Morris-Kay, Gillian M.

2010 The Evolution of Human Artistic Creativity. Journal of Anatomy 216:158-176.

Pomeroy, Emma, Paul Bennett, Chris O. Hunt, Tim Reynolds, Lucy Farr, and Marine Frouin

2020 New Neanderthal Remains Associated with the ‘Flower Burial’ at Shanidar

Cave. Antiquity 94:11-26. http://dx.doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2019.207

#the flowers and earth blackened where he died (i set him on fire)#hilichurl rogue #omg its a popular tag??#you guys get me #genshin impact #im pretty sure neanderthals are also typically quite a bit shorter than homo sapiens but i didnt add it cause im not 100% sure #also sorry for not checking too many details on shanidar but i linked some articles #theyre formated in SAA btw hope thats okay #I AM NOT AN ANTHROPOLOGIST or even studying it btw #neanderthal #i love anthropology so bad tho like its soooo fun to study #kms if you want me to get to digging like i could never do what you guys do much respect #also! as far as i can tell many neanderthal groups seemed to wander?#at least thats my interpretation but once again im not totally sure so i didnt add it #just food for though especially with the last drop description about the eternal outlander #i guess hilichurl rogues dont even fit in among reg hilichurls also and they seem to be build at more of an in between of reg characters #if i had more energy id get going about that child who appeared mixed between homo sapien and neanderthal

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nicholasdaily · 10 months

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Hey Nick! I’ve noticed that your dad doesnt work a very safe job so do you ever feel worried or concerned for him

Oh yeah, all the time. I mean, night guarding is already a difficult job to begin with. The late hours, the threat of burglary, minimum wage... Then you have to consider the living exhibits he watches! And not all the exhibits he meets are exactly, uh... nice either. So I do worry about him sometimes. He's my dad, I'm always going to. But he has everyone at the museum by his side, which has got to be like having the coolest bodyguards ever, right? I know he'll keep them safe, and I know they'll keep him safe!

#they can't protect him from the stress though #just last month #the Neanderthals lit the front desk on fire #again #and it gave him a crisis #at this rate he's going to have all grey hairs before new years #natm #night at the museum #ask box #larry daley

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cinnamonferns · 1 year

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15 questions for 15 mutuals

Thank you for tagging me, @loveryss @simmerstellar & @druidberries!

Are you named after anyone?

Nope! My parents chose a name out of a book that they hoped wouldn't be popular.

When was the last time you cried?

Yesterday - but I'm a big time crier.

Do you have kids?

I do - just one :)

Do you use sarcasm a lot?

No, not really

What sports do you play/have you played?

I used to dance - I did ballet and jazz.

What’s the first thing you notice about other people?

I would say their demeanor? Like how they treat other people. Otherwise I suppose their mouth and eyes.

Eye colour?

A sort of grey-blue

Scary movies or happy endings?

Scary movies! Some of my favorite movies are scary ones!

Any special talents?

Hm, I guess I am a fast reader.

Where were you born?

England - now living in the US.

What are your hobbies?

Reading, gaming (Legend of Zelda is one of my all time fave games), hiking, painting.

Do you have any pets?

I have a two-year old rescue dog named Nova

How tall are you?

160cm // 5'3"

Fave subject in school?

History and Biology

Dream job?

I would love to be a paleoanthropologist! I have my degree in anthropology and would love to be able to continue paleolithic research.

I think a lot of my mutuals have been tagged previously, so if you have, please ignore this! @birdietrait @faerytrait @charmingmushroom @nurbsfirby @potionio and also anyone else who wants to play, consider yourself tagged by me!

#nonsims #ask game #a little fun fact #i spent my last year of school studying goat bones from roughly 10000 years ago #neanderthals were my main focus in studying #also i get so so nervous to tag people #so please deffo ignore this is if you don't want to answer!

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yasmeensh · 8 months

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Angsty Neanderthal teenager and his blind little sister. I gave them names but I'm too timid to share yet lol. I'm developing their story arc far more than the main character's 😳 they took over my mind ever since I thought of them existing.

#personal project #paleolithic #neanderthal #so uhm I HAVE AN ENDING THOUGHT OUT #at last #I have the story beats planned out #I have some key scenes #but still needs to be filled out waaaayyyy more #I think what will make up the core of the story experience are the little things. the character interactions #misadventures #etc #I day dream about these things but haven't written them out or placed them anywhere in the story #it's those things that will reinforce the theme softly. in little tiny bites #so that when a character does something related to the theme it doesn't come out of nowhere #the character has been exposed to it and experienced it time and time again #until they get the aha moment and apply what they've learnt during a critical moment #(I'm talking about Tam here. but it also applies to neanderteen's arc)#there will be a slow timeskip btw #the characters gradually grow up in the story #I had a moment. wanted to see my baby characters all grown up ;-;#and in ACTION

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chaoswillcalmusdown · 1 year

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time for izzy's semi weekly complain about ted lasso session but like........

you could have EASILY had isaac try to act like everything was normal (because he's not only an adult but also a CAPTAIN of the team). like he could have been making up excuses to avoid colin in a way that still lets the team think everything is fine. bc the way they did it, everyone would have noticed ?!?! but no one noticed or cared??

you could even have tied it back to isaac talking about body science and you could have had jamie tell someone something is up with isaac and colin and that person be like 'ppffffft what are you on??' and him being like "no, look at their body science!!!"

also: hate the lack of michael

#idk i can think of several ways to get the exact same outcome but that makes isaac look less like a neanderthal and that makes sense #they have SO MUCH time in the episodes now and they're just wasting them on what ??#even the fan yelling slurs situation could have made more sense #the writing is just so clunky #isaac saying 'that fan said some ignorant shit' is such a clunky line. like the entire changing room scene last ep. ugh #ted lasso #i just can't get over the fact that nobody commented on the isaac and colin situation. none of the coaches. none of the players. wild

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midnightwind · 8 months

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the only reason I'm still on twitter is because I can't actually tag the stuff I retweet whereas on here I have to queue everything because I'm trapped waiting for my brain to hit the magic window to do a lot of typing

#“you could just hit reblog and not tag” what are you a neanderthal??#how do I tell the artist I loved their work or that OP is hilarious?? through brain waves??#how do I drown myself in my own handpicked posts of my latest hyperfixation without the words of god defining them #this is me having to go like 8 pages into my likes rn to find where I stopped last time and wailing and gnashing my teeth

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