It's a bit beyond his period of interest (the presumed turning point in the 17th century), but a casual reminder that Phillip Aries was a cherry picking hack, as if the Eurocentricism of his thesis isn't proof enough.

Kids being kids reminded me of Onfim, the boy from medieval Novgorod who drew himself slaying dragons instead of learning his letters

I love these kinds of photographs. Even better is when we find archaeological evidence of familiar behavior tens of thousands of years ago. We humans haven't really changed since Homo sapiens first came to be, despite all our cultural layers.

Except this one was just stopping off between shifts crawling about under the loom.