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Sakara, Stone Age Fox 🏳️‍🌈

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Lives in a cave some 12,000 years ago. Prehistoric fox and writer of times long forgotten. 18+ Account! Profile Picture by: ‪@katevenom Banner by: @skippylynn Member of: https://furrywritersguild.com/ My other sites: https://sakarafox.carrd.co/

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Sakara, Stone Age Fox 🏳️‍🌈 @sakarafox.bsky.social · Jan 6

My name's Sakara, and I primarily write historic- or, well, prehistoric-fiction/fantasy. My work focuses on sweeping you 12,000 years into the past, to follow its forgotten people and their storied lives.

I'm most active over here, on my FA:
www.furaffinity.net/user/metrofox2

#FurryWriting

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0laffson @0laffson.bsky.social · 2h

Drawtober 14-Needy

As a shaman destined to have a shaman daughter, Scrawny Marten's position in her tribe was very important. The conception of her daughter was a serious matter, involving specific rituals.

So her first experience was not the best. Her and Cave Lion had to take things very slowly.

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Sakara, Stone Age Fox 🏳️‍🌈 @sakarafox.bsky.social · 5h

Very much so, and extremely happy to have the original piece framed in my room.

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Sakara, Stone Age Fox 🏳️‍🌈 @sakarafox.bsky.social · 5h

From the above, it looks like it'd work very well for capturing how vibrant that scene sounds.

Sakara, Stone Age Fox 🏳️‍🌈 @sakarafox.bsky.social · 5h

I can't recall if I shared before, but I usually go to the Bradshaw Foundation site first to see if they've got what I'm looking for. Quite an extensive site for cave and rock art, I recommend it.

www.bradshawfoundation.com/sitemap.php

Bradshaw Foundation - Site Map

Bradshaw Foundation sitemap provides a complete list of links to all areas of analysis and study, including research into rock art and cave art paintings, archaeology, anthropology, prehistory, the jo...

www.bradshawfoundation.com

Sakara, Stone Age Fox 🏳️‍🌈 @sakarafox.bsky.social · 6h

Bring on the pneumatic tubes too. The hyperloop of their day, other than building working examples.

Someone years ago on a forum also mentioned "stone-punk," which I have avoided as I know I'll nit-pick the hell out of it. And that's not particularly nice of me.

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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 6h

Very interesting piece of research. Surviving Palaeolithic art mostly uses red, ocher and black pigments, but recent findings might hint that they also used blue for less permanent forms of decoration, like body art or fabrics:

Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 6h

Did the early modern humans of Palaeolithic Europe wear blue? #TextileTuesday
Blue pigments are largely absent from cave and portable art, but may have been used for archaeologically invisible activities, such as body decoration or dyeing fabrics.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

A cracked piece of stone overlaid with three circles highlighting specific sections. Close-ups of the three highlighted areas show traces of blue pigment on its surface.

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Sakara, Stone Age Fox 🏳️‍🌈 @sakarafox.bsky.social · 6h

I wouldn't say plasticine work is childish, given my first association with it is Aardman and their stop-motion animation. It's able to be given artistic merit, especially in the amount of work that goes into sculpting and modelling it.

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Sakara, Stone Age Fox 🏳️‍🌈 @sakarafox.bsky.social · 17h

That said, definitely don't wear the miner's stuff as well as the experts do.

Sakara, Stone Age Fox 🏳️‍🌈 @sakarafox.bsky.social · 17h

Recovered some photos from the old, dying laptop. Not sure how to feel about the second photo, given it was taken year after the first. Guess if I actually put a little more care into my shaving, it ends up removing a number of years and an amount of anxiety.

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kevintheradioguy @kevintheradioguy.bsky.social · 20h

My rent has been bumped up, and it just so happens that I want to do more in this kind of style.

Reposts appreciated!

#art #digitalart #commissionsopen

Contact via DMs or Discord (kevintheradioguy).

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Sakara, Stone Age Fox 🏳️‍🌈 @sakarafox.bsky.social · 1d

Though, this seems to be another place I've chosen poorly then. Seeing as Sak (and later Kuveli) use woad. Which I'm sure, given where they live, might surprise any researchers. A shame the context of it being from their mother, who fled her place of birth, would be lost.

Sakara, Stone Age Fox 🏳️‍🌈 @sakarafox.bsky.social · 1d

I recall what was mentioned in the video about using IR lights to find tattoos, yeah. Reminds me of what they mentioned at Creswell, where it's so exposed that any paints have long since faded. Though there is evidence of pigments that requires some more study.

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Sakara, Stone Age Fox 🏳️‍🌈 @sakarafox.bsky.social · 1d

A good can of worms always tends to make for a fun worldbuilding question, I find.

But yeah, decoratively cutting the fur like with camels seems like the best option. Though for my folk I went with dyes for permanent markings. Perhaps instead there could be residue from dye in a container with them

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Sakara, Stone Age Fox 🏳️‍🌈 @sakarafox.bsky.social · 1d

Makes me wonder, as a friend occasionally asks about tattoos on anthros, if it could ever be preserved so well on anthro remains. Might be worth looking into myself, as I might try writing a story about archaeologists finding the remains of one of my own characters.

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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 1d

Milo Rossi posted a video about tattoos on mummies, and he mentioned database of all the examples of tattooed mummies found around the world.

It is based on research by Aaron Deter–Wolf, an expert on the field. It is a very interesting read:

(CW: Human remains)
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/1dfc...

Tattooed Human Mummies

A global data set of tattooed human remains preserved in the archaeological record

storymaps.arcgis.com

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Sakara, Stone Age Fox 🏳️‍🌈 @sakarafox.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, fair and perhaps another time then. Should you ever wind up in this part of the world though, there's always some good rough ciders that comes out of Devon and Cornwall.

Sakara, Stone Age Fox 🏳️‍🌈 @sakarafox.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, looks like you got actual scrumpy too. A fine choice. Calls for appropriate music to drink to.

open.spotify.com/track/5lsoEx...

Drink Up Thy Zider

open.spotify.com

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Sakara, Stone Age Fox 🏳️‍🌈 @sakarafox.bsky.social · 2d

Taking a moment to enjoy some peace, and ask for favour on their hunting trip. It's always best to leave an offering too, and Sakara seems to think it's worth leaving his rather precious necklace. I'm sure his arrows will be blessed for it.

Beautiful traditional piece by @horned-hut.bsky.social

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Sakara, Stone Age Fox 🏳️‍🌈 @sakarafox.bsky.social · 1d

~Yes, good, another convert~

Gotta delve into the ancestors of some of your characters, see what they're up to out in the forests.

Sakara, Stone Age Fox 🏳️‍🌈 @sakarafox.bsky.social · 1d

It's no worries, I'm quite familiar with that awkwardness too. It can be a pain. I'm fine with DMs either on here, or over on Telegram.

Sakara, Stone Age Fox 🏳️‍🌈 @sakarafox.bsky.social · 1d

It might have to be around you more constantly for it to wear off. Or, in the case of the candle I never used, it does fade on its own over time. But that's just a case of renewing it.

Sakara, Stone Age Fox 🏳️‍🌈 @sakarafox.bsky.social · 2d

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0laffson @0laffson.bsky.social · 2d

Drawtober 12-Infection

These two doctors seem to have quite a different approach to healing this patient, who do you think has the better idea? :P

Non-humans are immune to human diseases, so Cat Medic needs no protection. The disease in question wiped out 50% of the human population in some areas.

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Sakara, Stone Age Fox 🏳️‍🌈 @sakarafox.bsky.social · 2d

I recall once in school we went to an old Victorian schoolhouse, and they had us spend the day as students in that era. One of the things we did was make beeswax candles, and they did smell wonderful. I never used mine, just kept it on my desk because it smelled nice.

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Sakara, Stone Age Fox 🏳️‍🌈 @sakarafox.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, fuck it. Payday's just gone, work was a drag, and people are going out tonight. Remind me to confiscate my phone this time, before I get too rat-arsed.