Mauricio Antón’s Paleonathropological Illustrations
Yesterday and today have been slow days as far as anthropology news.
But no worries, I’ve been scouring the internets for content and came across Mauricio Antón’s portfolio of paleontological illustrations. He’s drawn up some entertaining but run-of-the-mill representations of humans and their ancestors, such as these Ergasters on a hunt, this antecessor collage, and a reconstruction the Bodo cranium into a portrait of a hominin.
But this family portrait of Atapuerca humans is not a normal paleoanthropological illustration. It is hilarious. I love how he took something modern, like a family photo, and made applied it to prehistoric humans. Made my day.
Hey Kambiz – actually this very picture is used to illustrate the cover of ‘The Palaeolithic Societies of Europe‘ by Clive Gamble – and is described on the back cover as ‘The Sima de los Huesos family in front of their family tree at Atapuerca’ – I know it’s bit of a cultural leap to the ‘family photo’ idea, but I like the semi-bored look of the guy at bottom right.
I should be heading to Atapuerca in the not too distant future, and hope to post something on that in due course.
Tim Jones
August 19, 2007 at 6:07 pm
Wow, good job for catching this use of the image. Thanks for sharing it with us, I completely didn’t put two and two together when I saw this image!
If you have a digital photo, please share pictures of Atapuerca! Flickr is an excellent place to dump the images if you don’t already have a place to put up the photos.
Kambiz
August 19, 2007 at 6:59 pm
Well I have a page at Picasa…
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/remotecentralimagebank
…at the moment it’s just a collection of ordinary images, but there are quite a few sites in this neck of the woods which I’ll be visiting, and I’ll post images of those sites as I get round to seeing them, so I’ll keep you posted.
Tim Jones
August 20, 2007 at 11:18 am
Please do keep me updated, I’d appreciate it!
Kambiz
August 20, 2007 at 11:20 am