In my opinion, molluscs are quite impressive looking things, and that is no less true of the smaller snails as it is octopi and giant clams. Vertigo pygmaea Draparnaud 1801 is a holarctic land snail often found in dry calcareous grassland and on dunes, but never in wooded areas. Inside the mouth of the shell [...]
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Shell Architecture Up Close
Posted in photography, shells, snails, tagged photography, shells, snails on July 2, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Iruña-Veleia
Posted in photography, sites, tagged archaeology, photography, Roman, sites, Spain on September 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Iruña-Veleia, a Roman oppidum in Alava, northern Spain:
Reconstruction features very heavily in the presentation of the site, for example this mosaic over a water tank:
The finds from the site include what is claimed to be the oldest representation of the crucifixion of Christ and the oldest known writings in the Basque language*.
In Late Antiquity, the [...]
Something to play with: PhotoZoom and dental calculus
Posted in links, web projects, tagged images, internet archaeology, photography, web projects on July 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
PhotoZoom is an online version of Deep Zoom for Microsoft’s Silverlight 2, which is designed to make it easier to work with huge images or collections of images. Currently, PhotoZoom does not have all of Deep Zoom’s features, such as the ability to add additional images deep within a zoom, however it does still present [...]
