#calcified

[transparentfossil]

747g Calcified Freshwater Crab in Travertine Fossil Mineral Specimen

[its-a-date]

Recently, the DNA of the bacterium was recovered from a calcified lung nodule of a mummified Swedish bishop who died in the seventeenth century. The refined molecular clock analysis now estimates that all lineages in the M. tuberculosis complex shared an ancestor about 3,258 years ago (within a range of likelihood that extends from 2,190 to 4,501 years ago). It is not impossible, of course, that more evidence could emerge to alter the story, and the earlier skeletal evidence for TB in human (and animal) populations remains a sticky problem. But we have to reckon with the reality that TB as we know it is a product of the late Holocene, a relatively young pathogen that emerged in the context of civilization.

"Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" - Kyle Harper

[xanaxfarts]

Philippe Pastor: Siège Des Nations Unies (2006)

[thatshowthingstarted]

Jade Figure of a Kneeling Man, Shang dynasty,

(c. 1600-c. 1050 BCE), 12th-11th century BCE. 

Calcified, bone-colored nephrite,

H. 4.3 x W. 2.8 cm (1 11/16 x 1 1/8 in.), Weight 54 g. 

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum,

© President and Fellows of Harvard College.

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Late post from #Oaxaca last week #HierveElAgua #epicviews #breathtaking #naturesbeauty #naturalwonders #waterfall #calcified #mountains #naturalpool #fortunate #mexico (at Hierve el Agua)

[ignore-the-chaos]

Mood:

Howl Pendragon when he gets a cold.