SSTF@lemmy.world to HistoryArtifacts@piefed.socialEnglish · edit-22 months ago19th-century Inuit artifact from the Bering Sea region, crafted from walrus ivory to depict a polar bear carrying its cub.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1216file-text
arrow-up1216image19th-century Inuit artifact from the Bering Sea region, crafted from walrus ivory to depict a polar bear carrying its cub.lemmy.worldSSTF@lemmy.world to HistoryArtifacts@piefed.socialEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square15fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaresolidsmoke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 months 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·edit-22 months agoLotsa unicorns way back then. Hung. edit: meant “hunh”, but I’m leaving it.
minus-squareDeacon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoUnicorns just have the same horn down there. It’s all one diagonally placed bone all the way through.
minus-squarewyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoIIRC, horns are keratin and antlers are bone. ☝🏼
minus-squareDeacon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoInteresting. What else can you tell us about Unicorn physiology?
minus-squarewyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months 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. 💁🏽♀️