Reinaerd: mapping early hominid dispersal
This post documents the process of encoding a basic map of the historic spread of early hominids across the globe onto an animal body. The animal in question is a fox called Reinaerd, the Flemisch/Dutch medieval fairytale trickster, which seemed a suitable character to embody such a map. Step 1: Reworking an existing map, simplifying it to have red correspond to the earliest areas, gradually shifting hue to more recent times. (Which would theoretically make the arrows obsolete.) Step 2: Adapting that map to the body of a fox.