Haruspex, picking at culture's guts. — The African elephant and the Asian elephant are the only two surviving species of what was in prehistoric times a diverse and populous group of large mammals. Fossil records suggest that the elephant has some unlikely distant relatives, namely the small, rodentlike hyrax and the ungainly aquatic dugong. They all are thought to have evolved from a common stock related to ungulates. In East Africa many well-preserved fossil remains of earlier elephants have aided scientists in dating the archaeological sites of prehistoric man.

Haruspex, picking at culture's guts.

I am a 25 year old design student from Winnipeg, Manitoba. In some ways, I am also a retired archaeologist, but that takes some explaining. I'm into culture, not just trends and pop-culture, but the meat of culture(s). I'm obsessed with how they interact across the globe, how they are stratified, and what it means to be a social being in a culture that we all help to shape but don't really control. I'm also into fine art, illustration, sci-fi, games and other interactive media, post-apocalyptic futures, technology, bad-ass robots bristling with firepower... and long walks in the woods.
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The African elephant and the Asian elephant are the only two surviving species of what was in prehistoric times a diverse and populous group of large mammals. Fossil records suggest that the elephant has some unlikely distant relatives, namely the small, rodentlike hyrax and the ungainly aquatic dugong. They all are thought to have evolved from a common stock related to ungulates. In East Africa many well-preserved fossil remains of earlier elephants have aided scientists in dating the archaeological sites of prehistoric man.

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