Associate Lecturer, Research Officer, studies medieval/early modern wild animals & plants.
Author, Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife & Creatures of Story and Song.
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Lee Raye
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A proof copy of my new book Creatures of Story and Song has just arrived! Excited! 🥳💚
Nature research paper: A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone
go.nature.com/4v1yiFk
Researchers uncovered an enormous deep-sea accumulation of whale remains in the southeastern Indian Ocean, showing long-term, specialized ecosystems and an extensive fossil record that offers new insight into deep-ocean biodiversity and whale evolutionary history.
Do you know the medieval trope of the white pig? It is sometimes thought of as this fragment of pure Celtic folklore, related to the white breed of park cattle, or the hounds of Annwn. But I think that might be wrong...
(Sneak peak thread from my new book! 🧵🐗)
The salmon is the best recorded fish in early modern historical sources. 🐟 There are oh so many records (disproportionate!) from Scotland, Wales, Connacht & SW England but few in the South & Midlands of England - salmon may have become rarer here in the medieval period. #AtlasofEarlyModernWildlife
Nature
Was shown this article today on the links between natural history and the transatlantic slave trade. It was written a while back now but the case studies of early modern naturalists are fantastic! I hadn't realised James Petiver was so involved!
www.science.org/content/arti...
Lee Raye
Key plant and animal specimens arrived in Europe on slavers’ ships
🎉Exciting news! My new article, 'The ‘fancy of the private collector’: Walter Rothschild’s global animal procurement network and collaboration in the animal trade' has been published in BJHS Themes as FirstView and is available OA: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #naturalhistory #animaltrade
