Comment on it's obviously a thingamajig
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 8 hours agoThe 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 8 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 7 hours ago
Have you ever seen a bronze fidget spinner?
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 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.
eurodyne@piefed.world 4 hours ago
It’s a very interesting characterization of archaeologists as “defaulting” to something that’s their entire field of study.
Not criticizing; I just thought that was amusing.
And do they get a lot of flack for that? Perhaps you’ve been watching too much Stargate SG1.