SSTF to HistoryArtifacts@piefed.socialEnglish · 12 days ago19th-century Inuit artifact from the Bering Sea region, crafted from walrus ivory to depict a polar bear carrying its cub.imagemessage-square16linkfedilinkarrow-up1215arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1215arrow-down1image19th-century Inuit artifact from the Bering Sea region, crafted from walrus ivory to depict a polar bear carrying its cub.SSTF to HistoryArtifacts@piefed.socialEnglish · 12 days agomessage-square16linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squaresolidsmokecakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·11 days agoPolar bear? Looks to me like they just carved some funny little guys. I’d hate for future archaeologists to find my highschool doodles and decide what animals I must have been depicting
minus-squarewyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·11 days agoLotsa unicorns way back then. Hung. edit: meant “hunh”, but I’m leaving it.
minus-squareDeaconlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 days agoUnicorns just have the same horn down there. It’s all one diagonally placed bone all the way through.
minus-squarewyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 days agoIIRC, horns are keratin and antlers are bone. ☝🏼
minus-squareDeaconlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 days agoInteresting. What else can you tell us about Unicorn physiology?
minus-squarewyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 days agoPretty horny from top to bottom, and all the switches between. 💁🏽♀️
Polar bear? Looks to me like they just carved some funny little guys. I’d hate for future archaeologists to find my highschool doodles and decide what animals I must have been depicting
Lotsa unicorns way back then. Hung.
edit: meant “hunh”, but I’m leaving it.
Unicorns just have the same horn down there. It’s all one diagonally placed bone all the way through.
IIRC, horns are keratin and antlers are bone. ☝🏼
Interesting. What else can you tell us about Unicorn physiology?
Pretty horny from top to bottom, and all the switches between. 💁🏽♀️