Bigger picture of romantic neolithic skeletons

February 8, 2007 10:02 AM

Help me find a bigger picture of the romantic neolithic skeletons from Mantua Italy.

There's this picture all over the news at the moment that portrays the neolithic skeletons of a man and woman in embrace.

I think the picture is cute and want to find the biggest/highest resolution version possible so I can use it in some romantic way for my girlfriend.

I've tried google, news.google.com etc. But they only provide a quite small picture of about 300*400 pixels. See Google images for instance.

I'm hoping somebody knows a way to find a bigger picture. For instance by finding a site of the Italian archeaological society. But I don't know enough Italian to search well.

posted by jouke to science & nature (11 comments total)

Oh, and I think the picture where you see them 'whole' in stead of just their heads is the most moving....
posted by jouke at 10:07 AM on February 8, 2007

Here's one that's 800 x 1067. Will that do? (from this article, incidentally)
posted by cerebus19 at 11:13 AM on February 8, 2007

Fabulous cerebus19. That's great!
I'm impressed you found that.
posted by jouke at 11:26 AM on February 8, 2007

This would be a really romantic way to propose marriage: "Darling, would you like to spend together forever, just like these neolithic skeletons?"

This is not a romantic way to propose marriage.
posted by Dasein at 11:50 AM on February 8, 2007 [3 favorites]

It's an interesting endeavor in classification, I haven't read too much about it, so perhaps there are some accompanying lithic remains to substantiate the moniker "neolithic", but in Southern Europe these fossils are right on the line between "neolithic" and "bronze age", depending on specific location
posted by edgeways at 12:27 PM on February 8, 2007

Great question--because as soon as I saw the picture, I too, wanted a bigger version.
posted by Savannah at 3:07 PM on February 8, 2007

Savannah, yeah, it's cute isn't it?
Unfortunately there are 2 versions; the sunny version with high contrast that's very evocative I think, and the bigger version that cerebus19 found that is more grey and made at more of an angle.
It's great that cerebus found it but their respective poses are not as clear on the latter and it's not as moving as a result....
posted by jouke at 4:01 PM on February 8, 2007

Well, there's this larger copy of the sunny version, but it's only 490 x 600.
posted by cerebus19 at 9:36 PM on February 8, 2007

How do you do it cerebus? Tx a lot.
Yes, that's big enough. Now I only have to find a good story to go with it.
posted by jouke at 10:45 PM on February 8, 2007

Thanks for asking this, jouke! I was going to make do with the low-res version, myself.
posted by lostburner at 1:27 AM on February 9, 2007

Not too sure why the notion of two people knowing they're about to die and holding each other while they do is entirely romantic.

They must have either known they were going to die somehow and hugged each other to the end (ala the moment of the old couple on Titanic) or death came upon them suddenly while they were hugging it out.
posted by badlydubbedboy at 3:04 AM on February 9, 2007