Comment on it's obviously a thingamajig
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 9 hours agoThey never have any signs of wear, and children are always a destructive force, so this is unlikely.
Comment on it's obviously a thingamajig
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 9 hours agoThey never have any signs of wear, and children are always a destructive force, so this is unlikely.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
The broken ones didn’t get saved.
Edit: I’m just now remembering the staggering amount of broken and discard pipes and pottery we have in display cases literally everywhere. Nevermind.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
Would you put a fidget spinner in with your gold horde, like some of them have been?
ech@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
If I had a gold hoard, sure, why not.
eurodyne@piefed.world 8 hours ago
Have you ever seen a bronze fidget spinner?
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
It would be less remarkable to people who grew up with them :p
Archaeologists get a lot of flak for defaulting to ‘it was for religious/ritual purposes’, but I think cult membership/usage might actually be a good explanation. Especially considering the existence of things like cults that think Platonic solids were some kind of sacred knowledge.