#WildlifeWednesday & we are highlighting this #ancientEgyptian #Predynastic #ceramic D-ware vessel, which depicts some of the earliest images of #birds in flight. It can be dated to the Naqada II period & comes from the site of #Hierakonpolis. You can see it on display in the museum! E.6111
Shared for #FlintFriday
Flint figurine of a hartebeest
#AncientEgypt 3650-3450 BC
Found in a #Hierakonpolis cemetery in #Egypt
Archaeological study uncovers world's oldest evidence of livestock horn manipulation
"Discovered at the elite burial complex in #Hierakonpolis, Upper #Egypt (ca. 3700 BC), 6 sheep showed evidence of deformation"
#Egyptology
phys.org/news/2024-12...
Archeologen hebben bij #opgravingen in #Hierakonpolis (of Nekhen) in #Egypte zes #skeletten van #schapen gevonden die waren begraven bij een menselijk graf. De schapen hadden een bijzonder detail... /1
www.eoswetenschap.eu/geschiedenis...
Van Neer et al.'s 2015 article on animal #traumatism #Hierakonpolis
#dogs #Egyptology #favouritereads #2015 #PDP