09.12.2008

Peavy's other passion

Hi friends

I'd like to tell you something about my other passion.

Apart from my musical activities, I'm busy with my passion for bones of all kinds which keep fascinating me since my childhood days. If I hadn't become a musician, I would surely work in this field nowadays.

I'm intensely occupied with bone preparation, being my professional background which I have learned profesionally in my student days. These activities contain the professional cleaning, degreasing and articulation of skulls and bones. For this purpose, I'm working in close co-operation with an animal and fossil preparators school in Bochum / Germany from where I also obtain the material - that is the animals.

Not a single animal was killed for this purpose, these are exclusively deceased zoo animals or hunted animals, given to us by huntsmen. The finished articulations later go out to schools or museums in case I don't keep them for myself. Meanwhile, I've built up an extensive natural history collection - you could say I'm running my own private museum.

This collection not only contains recent, new objects, but also a lot of distinct, fossil specimen. I have pieces from all earth ages but my focus is on the ice age (also called the Pleistocene Epoch) which began around 2 million years ago and ended 10.000 years ago.

I'm collecting those bones myself also (besides to buying them). They can be found in sand and gravel pits where they are brought to the surface by swimming excavators that extract them from the sand and stone material from layers 16 meters deep.

I have a collection of prehistoric stone tools which were used by the cavemen in the Stone Age to hunt and work.

My skull casts can also be purchased on the internet (check: links: Kipping fossils / copies).