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 shifiting hue to more recent times. (Which would theoretically make the arrows obsolete.)

Step 2:

Adapting that map to the body of a fox.