09.12.2008Peavy's other passion |
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Hi friends Would like to tell you something about my other passion. Next to my musical activities I'm busy with my passion for bones of all kinds, this since my childhood days. If I wouln't have become a musician, I would surely work on this field nowadays. |
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I'm doing intensively bone preparation, which I have learned proffessionally in my student days. This contains the proffessional cleaning, degreasing and articulation of skulls and bones, herefor I'm working closely together with a preparator school in Bochum / Germany, from where I also get the material, the animals. |
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Not one animal is killed for this purpose, these are exclusively deceased Zoo animals or hunted animals, given to us by the hunters. The finished articulations later go out for schools or museums, if I don't keep them for myself. Meanwhile, I've built up an extensive natural history collection, you could say, I run my private Museum. |
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This collection does not only contain 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 pleistocene. This began around 2 million years ago and endet 10 000 years ago. |
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I collect those bones also myself (next to buying them). They are found in sand and gravel pits where they see the light through swimming excevators, that bring them up with the sand and stone material from 16 meter deep layers. |
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| I have a special interest in paleoanthropology, the science about our human ancestors.
I have a collection of prehistoric stone tools, which were used from the cavemen in the stone age to hunt and work. |
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I'm also producing casts of the skulls of these prehistoric humans (like Neanderthals for example), as the originals are extremely rare and precious, so being kept in scientific collections.
You can also buy my skull casts in the internet (check: links: Kipping fossils / copies). |
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