A porpoise jawbone, discovered in the Hebrides by a 1950s schoolboy as part of an ancient treasure hoard, raises similar questions about the significance these animals held for earlier peopleThe strange discovery of a porpoise skeleton interred in a medieval religious grave in the Channel Islands is evocative of a deep cultural connection between humans and cetaceans which we are only just beginning to understand.It speaks to a different, historical relationship to the natural world - one which now appears to be coming full circle. Continue reading...
Channel Islands' buried porpoise is not the first such mysterious find
20. září 2017 15:27
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Zdroj: The Guardian