{"id":2808,"date":"2010-06-27T09:55:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T13:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=2808"},"modified":"2010-06-27T09:55:44","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T13:55:44","slug":"the-garden-of-eden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/2808","title":{"rendered":"The Garden of Eden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">-or-<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;I had a hunting territory in Africa at the bottom of the Olduvai Gorge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A month back, I noticed and commented on <a href=\"tp:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/05\/13\/illustration-of-earl.html\">this<\/a> BB post. Like other\u00a0commenters\u00a0I recognized it from the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Life_Nature_Library\">Life Nature Library<\/a> (Early Man, to be precise). My primary partner in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/doncoyote\/513919657\/\">workcrime<\/a> has a complete set of the books in his classroom, so I&#8217;ve scanned the illustration Mark F referenced and two others I particularly liked. I&#8217;m going to leave cleanup and stitching for another day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4116\/4738546852_a58935469d_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4116\/4738546852_a58935469d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4094\/4738549644_ea19d548de_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4094\/4738549644_ea19d548de.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4140\/4738537678_d902fc1f0b_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4140\/4738537678_d902fc1f0b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4117\/4737905955_76ef4fca04_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4117\/4737905955_76ef4fca04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A little chest puffery &#8211; my original ID of the antelope as a Topi was dead-on. For an interesting post on early human\/hyena conflict by Steve Bodio, click <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenbodio.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/hunted-by-giant-hyenas.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4096\/4738542146_2612de0b53_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4096\/4738542146_2612de0b53.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4115\/4738544246_25d35343e2_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4115\/4738544246_25d35343e2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Jay Matternes&#8217; web site (he did the work above) is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jay-matternes.com\/index.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-or- &#8220;I had a hunting territory in Africa at the bottom of the Olduvai Gorge.&#8221; A month back, I noticed and commented on this BB post. 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