{"id":255,"date":"2017-02-28T03:17:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T03:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oceansofbiodiversity.wordpress.com\/?p=255"},"modified":"2024-12-06T11:53:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T10:53:31","slug":"palaeo-art-and-palaeo-biodiversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/2017\/02\/28\/palaeo-art-and-palaeo-biodiversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Palaeo-Art and palaeo-biodiversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently learned of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paleoart\">palaeo-art<\/a> from John Lavas our biology librarian. It\u2019s nothing to do with our needing a palaeo-diet but rich in images of what formed the diet of animals before man arrived. What I like about it is that it breathes life to fossils, as artists re-create how they think animals may have looked and behaved in their habitat. In addition to the intellectual challenge of piecing together the picture from the <a href=\"https:\/\/archosaurmusings.wordpress.com\/category\/palaeoart-2\/\">clues available<\/a>, the art can be both beautiful, sometimes amusing, and a great way to communicate palaeo-ecology to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/gallery\/2016\/jul\/20\/palaeoart-recreating-an-age-of-reptiles-mark-witton-dinosaurs\">the public<\/a>. John\u2019s articles were based on the work of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdenekburian.com\/cz\/\">Zden\u00e9k Burian<\/a> (1905-81).<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2017\/02\/palfig41.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-248 \" src=\"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2017\/02\/palfig41-208x300.jpg\" width=\"501\" height=\"723\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2017\/02\/palfig61.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-249 \" src=\"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2017\/02\/palfig61-300x226.jpg\" width=\"486\" height=\"366\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI thank Jiri Hochman for permission to include these images of Burian\u2019s work, and the Editor of the journal <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prehistorictimes.com\/\">Prehistoric Times<\/a><\/em> for permission to allow downloads of John\u2019s articles <a href=\"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2017\/02\/Lavas2016ZdenekBurianpart1-17bly1f.pdf\">Part 1<\/a>,\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2017\/02\/Lavas-2016-Zdenek-Burian-and-the-golden-age-of-palaeo-art-Part-2-2ntf36u.pdf\">Part 2<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2017\/02\/LavasZdenekBurianPart3-1ert87n.pdf\">Part 3<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2017\/02\/Lavas2017BurianPart4-1mxvbo9.pdf\">Part 4<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently learned of palaeo-art from John Lavas our biology librarian. It\u2019s nothing to do with our needing a palaeo-diet but rich in images of what formed the diet of animals before man arrived. What I like about it is that it breathes life to fossils, as artists re-create how they think animals may have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,26],"tags":[],"coauthors":[21],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-interesting-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2167,"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/2167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}