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.
Comment on it's obviously a thingamajig
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoThey never have any signs of wear, and children are always a destructive force, so this is unlikely.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Would you put a fidget spinner in with your gold horde, like some of them have been?
ech@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
If I had a gold hoard, sure, why not.
eurodyne@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
Have you ever seen a bronze fidget spinner?
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks 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.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s so funny to see people post their theories on this and every time it’s already been tested and answered