Prof Jamie Woodward
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Prof @GeographyUOM : Earth history, river science, #microplastics . Vice Pres R&HE @RGS_IBG Fellow @BSG_Geomorph Editor @GeogReview Author: The Ice Age VSI
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HUGELY EXCITING! A cave bear carcass has been recovered from the permafrost on an Arctic island - “the first and only find of its kind.” The preservation is remarkable; all internal organs are present. And that nose! Wonderful 📷 NEFU
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@BlackwellsMcr
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Giant sloths in South America excavated ENORMOUS tunnels during the Pleistocene. These remarkable megaburrows preserve the claw marks from the beasts that engineered them. More details and image credits here
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The Vogelherd horse is a miniature ice age masterpiece. This remarkably accomplished work is the oldest known sculpture of a horse. It was crafted in woolly mammoth ivory with flint tools over 35,000 years ago in southern Germany. It is breathtakingly beautiful.
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It is a quite remarkable fact that more time elapsed BETWEEN the painting of these ice age horses [LEFT: Chauvet cave >33,000 years ago and RIGHT: Niaux cave ~15,000 years ago] than has passed since the Niaux cave art and now!
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It blows my mind that more time elapsed BETWEEN the painting of these ice age horses [LEFT: Chauvet cave >33,000 years ago and RIGHT: Niaux cave ~15,000 years ago] than has passed since the Niaux cave art and now!
#IceAgeArt
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The GENIUS of the ice age artist. The Licking Bison of La Madeleine rockshelter was brilliantly observed and skilfully carved in last glacial France sometime between 20,000 and 12,000 years ago. WONDERFUL! Photo source
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Neanderthals were human too.
Brilliant artwork by Tom Björklund
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Before Brexit the UK was signed up to the water framework directive requiring EU nations to ensure their waters achieved “good” chemical & ecological status by 2027.
@DefraGovUK
&
@EnvAgency
have shifted this target to 2063! We must fight this in 2023.
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One of my favourite images from Chauvet Cave. One of the three red cave bears skilfully rendered by an
#IceAge
artist over 30,000 years ago.
Detail from a photo by Jean Clottes published in National Geographic in 2001.
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Families playing & swimming in the Gardon River today in southern France. This is not advisable anywhere in the UK where water companies treat our rivers like open sewers & dump millions of tonnes of sewage without regulation. We deserve better
@DefraGovUK
@OfficeforEP
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14,000 years ago, illuminated by animal fat lamps, two bison were expertly modelled in wet clay in the dark recesses of Le Tuc d'Audoubert cave in southwest France. The bison still show the markings traced by the sculptor’s fingernails
#IceAgeHumans
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This is the oldest known musical instrument. A Palaeolithic flute from Hohle Fels cave in southern Germany created from the wing bone of a Griffon vulture over 35,000 years ago
#IceAgeMusic
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It took three days of toil to free this magnificent woolly mammoth tusk from the iron hard ground. Photo by Evgenia Arbugáeva
#IceAgeIvory
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Welcome to the Anthropocene
Photo: Siberian Times
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It’s an extraordinary thought that there is probably more time BETWEEN the painting of these two horses at Chauvet cave (>30,000 years ago) and Niaux cave (~15,000 years ago) as there is between the Niaux cave art and us
#IceAgeArt
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14,000 years ago two bison were shaped in soft clay, by torchlight, in the dark recesses of Le Tuc d'Audoubert cave in SW France
#IceAgeArt
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The oldest known musical instrument. This exquisite ice age flute from Hohle Fels in Germany was crafted from the wing bone of a Griffon vulture over 35,000 years ago.
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Reindeer on the move tonight — a magical scene from ice age France. Illuminated by oil fat lamps, the panel of swimming reindeer at Lascaux was drawn in black manganese crayon some 17,000 winters past 🦌🦌
Happy Christmas everyone! 🎄
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This is the oldest known image of an owl. It was sketched with muddy Palaeolithic fingers over 30,000 years ago in Chauvet Cave.
It is therefore a
#SuperbOwl
Image by Jean Clottes
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The genius of the
#IceAgeArtist
Chauvet horse beautifully observed over 30,000 years ago created by lamplight from memory with fingers and rudimentary art kit on a limestone cavern wall deep underground
Horse taken with a digital camera on auto in the sunshine 🌞
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Reindeer on the move – a magical scene from the ice age. Illuminated by oil fat lamps, the panel of swimming reindeer at Lascaux was drawn in black manganese crayon some 17,000 winters past 🦌🦌
Happy Christmas everyone! 🎄
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Another giant crater forms in the Siberian permafrost - blocks of soil and ice thrown hundreds of metres from epicentre on the Yamal peninsula
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The genius of the
#IceAgeArtist
– a Chauvet horse beautifully observed over 30,000 years ago
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THIS IS ASTONISHING!
#IceAge
Beautifully preserved wolf head preserved in the Siberian permafrost for 30,000 years Photo by Naoki Suzuki
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The genius of the Chauvet artists from 30,000 years ago
#IceAgeArt
📷 Jean Clottes
#IceAgeFrance
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BREAKING: Beautifully preserved Ice Age foal recovered from Siberian permafrost. It may be 40,000 years old. Its tail, mane and internal organs are well preserved
#IceAgeHorses
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Against all odds, this tiny mammoth survived the ice age. Carved in woolly mammoth ivory using flint tools 35,000 years ago, it was discovered in 2007 in the post-excavation spoil at Vogelherd Cave 70 years after the original archaeological excavations! Image: Tübingen Museum.
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This man was buried at Sungir in Russia about 30,000 years ago adorned with 25 woolly mammoth ivory bracelets and 2936 IVORY BEADS. Each bead took about one hour to manufacture
#IceAgeDeath
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Jonathan the giant tortoise is 188 years old. He was born in 1832 - the same year that Charles Darwin and the Beagle arrived in South America. Just think about that! Happy Birthday!
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The reindeer are stirring....
The panel of swimming reindeer at Lascaux dates to the Magdalenian some 17,500 winters ago. It’s one of my favourites - a magical scene.
Happy Christmas everyone🎄
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#ArcticLife
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The Vogelherd horse – a miniature masterpiece from the ice age. This beautiful carving is the oldest known sculpture of a horse. Less than 5 cm long, it was crafted in woolly mammoth ivory with flint tools over 35,000 years ago. Image: Museum Schloss Hohentübingen, Tübingen 🇩🇪
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Against all odds, this tiny mammoth survived the ice age. Crafted in woolly mammoth ivory using flint tools 35,000 years ago, it was discovered in 2007 in the post-excavation spoil at Vogelherd Cave 70 years after the original archaeological excavations! Image: Tübingen Museum
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BREAKING: Perfectly preserved ice age foal from Siberia is presented to the world.
Photos: Siberian Times
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At the end of the last glacial two bison were modelled in wet clay in the deep recesses of Le Tuc d'Audoubert cave in SW France. The jaws were expertly traced by the sculptor's fingernail. Rediscovered in 1912, they stood alone in the darkness for 14,000 years
#IceAgeHumans
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Oldest known piece of string was made by Neanderthals 50,000 years ago
#IceAgeSkills
Image: M-H Moncel
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14,000 years ago, illuminated by animal fat lamps, two bison were expertly modelled in wet clay in the dark recesses of Le Tuc d'Audoubert cave in southwest France. The bison still show markings traced by the sculptor’s fingernails
#IceAgeArt
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Neanderthals were human too.
Brilliant artwork by Tom Björklund
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The extraordinary ingenuity of ice age humans: 14,000 years ago - illuminated by animal fat lamps - two bison were modelled in wet clay deep underground in Le Tuc d'Audoubert cave in southwest France. The jaws are traced by the sculptor's fingernail. Image
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Farmer who destroys ecosystem in river reach gets prison sentence.
Water company CEOs who allow ecological damage to hundreds of rivers get huge bonuses.
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Wonderful hand silhouettes in Cueva de las Manos (Cave of Hands) in Santa Cruz, Argentina, from ~9,300 years ago.
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The oldest known image of a human face ‒ woolly mammoth ivory portrait head sculpted over 25,000 years ago at Dolní Věstonice
#IceAgeArt
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The oldest known image of an owl created by muddy fingers in Chauvet Cave over 30,000 years ago
#IceAgeArt
#France
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The world’s oldest known musical instrument. This flute from Hohle Fels in Germany was crafted from the wing bone of a Griffon vulture over 35,000 years ago
#IceAgeMusic
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Against all the odds, this tiny mammoth survived the ice age. It was crafted in woolly mammoth ivory with simple flint tools 35,000 years ago in southern Germany. It was then found in the post-excavation spoil at Vogelherd Cave 70 years after the original excavations!
#IceAgeArt
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@EnvAgencyNW
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DNA
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“The juvenile rhino with thick hazel-coloured hair and the horn, found next to the carcass, was discovered in the middle of August in permafrost deposits by river Tirekhtyakh in the Abyisky ulus (district) of the Republic of Sakha.”
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The oldest known image of a human face ‒ this woolly mammoth ivory portrait head was sculpted over 25,000 years ago at Dolní Věstonice.
Image: Brno Museum, Czech Republic
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A webcam is now broadcasting live from the fissure eruption in Iceland and I can’t stop watching.....
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“It will cost over £12.5bn this parliament to keep paying shareholders & banks. The right way to close this black hole is to make failed companies lose their licences, cancel the debt & transition to public water — all possible under the existing law.”
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2020 was the hottest summer on record in the Northern Hemisphere. As the Siberian ground thaws, we are seeing faces that have been locked in the permafrost since the ice age. Cave bear, cave lion cub, Pleistocene wolf, Lena horse foal. What next? Photos from The Siberian Times.
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Storm Francis exhumes spectacular new evidence of 4500-year-old forest on the coast of west Wales 📷 Wales News and
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BREAKING! Archaeologists uncover oldest human burial in Africa where a three-year-old child was carefully laid to rest nearly 80,000 years ago
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This truly delightful mammoth ivory carving from Vogelherd Cave is the oldest known image of a hedgehog. It is 40,000 years old
#IceAgeArt
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Those Yakutian horses do look familiar... the genius of ice age artists...
Images from Siberian Times and Jean Clottes
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Archaeologists in Norway have discovered dozens of arrows—some dating back 6,000 years—melting out of glacial ice in the county’s high mountains
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The genius of the
#IceAgeArtist
Left: Chauvet horse created by flickering lamplight with fingers and rudimentary art kit (from memory) on a limestone cavern wall deep underground over 30,000 years ago... Image by Jean Clottes
Right: Digital camera on auto in the sunshine 🌞 📷
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A Neanderthal footprint preserved in the sediments of the Grotte di Toirano, Liguria, Italy. The last Neanderthals left the stage around 40,000 years ago. 📷 De Agostini
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A story of grotesque corporate greed and catastrophic failure of regulation.
@thameswater
is now debt-ridden to the tune of more than £15 billion and has secretly lobbied Whitehall to secure huge bill hikes. Illegal sewage dumping will continue and customers will be ripped off.
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GOOD NEWS! Four rare Scottish wildcat kittens born in Highland park
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Who was this ice age woman? This is the earliest known image of the human face. It was carved in woolly mammoth ivory over 26,000 years ago at Dolní Věstonice in the Czech Republic
#IWD2020
#IceAgeWomen
#InternationalWomensDay2020
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Ice age animation! Spinning disks were created towards the end of the last glacial period between 21,000 and 14,000 years ago. They may have been children’s toys. Watch the running, leaping deer!
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The Vogelherd horse – a miniature masterpiece of
#IceAgeArt
. This astonishingly graceful work is the oldest known sculpture of a horse. Less than 5 cm long, it was crafted in woolly mammoth ivory with flint tools over 35,000 years ago.
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In 1947, seven years after its rediscovery, LIFE magazine visited Lascaux Cave and Ralph Morse became the first professional photographer to capture this remarkable ice age world.
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'She’s perfect and she's beautiful,' said Yukon government palaeontologist Dr Grant Zazula of Nun cho ga, the first whole baby woolly mammoth found in North America
#IceAgeAmerica
📷 Government of Yukon
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14,000 years ago, by lamplight, two bison were expertly modelled in wet clay in the dark recesses of Le Tuc d'Audoubert cave in SW France
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“It is the best preserved to date juvenile woolly rhino ever found in Yakutia, with a lot of its internal organs - including its teeth, part of the intestines, a lump of fat and tissues - kept intact for thousands of years in permafrost.”
#IceAgeExtinction
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I love everything about this word: Bärenschliffe — polished rock surfaces in caves worn smooth by the passage of bears
#IceAgeLexicon
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Face masks run deep in human history. Stone masks from the Neolithic of the southern Judean desert are 9000 years old
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I’ve been thinking about the truly fantastic female Arctic fox that trekked over 3,500 km from Svalbard to Canada in just 76 days! ❄️🦊
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The Vogelherd horse – a miniature ice age masterpiece. This remarkably accomplished work is the oldest known sculpture of a horse. It was crafted in woolly mammoth ivory with flint tools over 35,000 years ago in southern Germany. It’s beautiful.
Image
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These rather chilling limestone masks from the Judean Desert were created ~9000 years ago — they are believed to be the oldest in the world.
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The panel of swimming reindeer at Lascaux dates to the Magdalenian about 17,500 winters past. It is truly a wonder of
#IceAgeArt
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Wishing you all peace and joy at Christmas!
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The Upper Palaeolithic art at Lascaux includes almost 6000 figures. This is often called the black stag and is believed to be Megaloceros giganteus - one of the largest deer that ever lived. This image was created about 17,000 years ago
#IceAgeArt
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This is amazing! A perfectly preserved large woven basket dating back some 10,500 years unearthed in the Judean Desert
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Paul Whitehouse travels around England and Wales to explore why rivers are in decline and what needs to be done to protect them. It was a delight to film with Paul and talk microplastics
@GeographyUOM
#OurTroubledRivers
20:00 on Sunday 5 March
@BBCTwo
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I want to share one of my favourite ice age reindeer for
#ChristmasEve
With a sharp flint tool, these lines were expertly scored into a slab of Dordogne limestone some 14,000 years ago. This delightful ice age plaquette is in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
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Our ancestors saying hello as they explored the planet.... 🤚🏽🖐🤚🏿🖐🏻
Borneo 40,000 years ago
France 35,000 years ago
Argentina 9,500 years ago
Images by Kinez Riza; Jean Clottes; Mariano
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Encrusted in calcite deep inside an Italian cave for over 150,000 years – this skeleton has yielded the oldest known samples of Neanderthal DNA. Altamura man was left in situ whilst a tiny sample of shoulder bone was recovered for analysis
#IceAgeDeath
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Towards the end of the last glacial period about 14,000 years ago, using the most rudimentary flint tools, this elegant reindeer was expertly scored into a slab of Dordogne limestone.
Image
@FitzMuseum_UK
🎄
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Happy Christmas everyone! 🎄
About 14,000 years ago, towards the end of the last glacial, this reindeer was expertly scored into a slab of hard Dordogne limestone.
Image
@FitzMuseum_UK
#IceAgeArt
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One of my favourite ice age reindeer.
With the most rudimentary flint tools, this handsome beast was expertly scored into a slab of Dordogne limestone some 14,000 years ago.
From the collections of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge
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Bones of SIXTY Columbian mammoths discovered during airport construction work in Mexico City 📷 Patricia Ruiz Anchondo
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The Vogelherd horse – a miniature masterpiece of
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Snow Angel of Death! Created by a Steller's sea eagle on the Kamchatka Peninsula in far eastern Russia. Its wingspan is one of the largest of any living eagle and may reach 2.5 m. Photo by Liana Varavskaya
#snow
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Spinning disks like this were created towards the end of the
#IceAge
between 14,000 and 21,000 years ago. They may have been children’s toys. Watch the running, leaping deer!
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