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Prehistoric rock paintings of Tassili N'Ajjer, Algeria

Beautifully-observed & realistic figure of a sleeping Antelope incised on rock up to 10,000 years ago at Tin Taghirt, Tassili n'Ajjer in Algeria, one of the largest & most important groupings of prehistoric cave art in the world.

 Ebullience   -    Jeanne Rosier Smith

American , b. 1966  -

Hafen von Triest, 1907, 1908

today’s obsession is ancient tattoos, in particular the s-curved floral-antlered deer of the Siberian Ice Maiden and Scythian Chieftain. 

it’s such a heavily used trope in modern media (off the top of my head I can think of Pokemon, Annihilation, Bambi, Snow White and the Huntsman, etc) and why wouldn’t it be! antlers look like branches, branches look like antlers, it’s only natural to pair them

but it makes me strangely emotional that our brains have always worked this way, and been drawn to the same imagery over and over again. 

Deer antlers start off covered in velvet, which is a layer of skin with blood vessels which help is grow. But once the antlers reach full size, the velvet has to come off, and since they don’t have hands, the best way is to rub the antlers on trees. (Which I’m not including pictures of itself because there’s a lot of blood.) Which sometimes ends up with leaves and branches caught in them.

Also when you walk around with bigass things attached to your head, you get them caught in stuff sometimes.