You ain't stabbing anyone with this shit

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• CyberCypress@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I remember the 2018 Society for American Archaeology conference, everyone saw this paper title in the schedule and tried to go to the talk. Probably the most asked question that weekend besides “time for a beer?” was “did you see the poop knife talk?”

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• degen@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What are you, a researcher, or a quitter?

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  • M0oP0o@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    OK, this is the take away. Never give up, never quit, don’t let your shit knife be dreams!

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• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is true. You must use a petrified coprolite.

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• qooqie@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Was this a common myth or something? There’s got to be a reason to test it

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  • Skua@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The paper's introduction actually does explain it:

    In his book, Shadows in the Sun, Davis (1998: 20) recounts what is now arguably one of the most popular ethnographic accounts of all time:
    “There is a well known account of an old Inuit man who refused to move into a settlement. Over the objections of his family, he made plans to stay on the ice. To stop him, they took away all of his tools. So in the midst of a winter gale, he stepped out of their igloo, defecated, and honed the feces into a frozen blade, which he sharpened with a spray of saliva. With the knife he killed a dog. Using its rib cage as a sled and its hide to harness another dog, he disappeared into the darkness.”

    There's also the story of Danish explorer Peter Freuchen, who claims to have used his own frozen shit to make a chisel to dig himself out of some ice. The paper takes the time to say that it is strictly about knives, though, not chisels

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    • garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No way, explorers lying about their experiences? :O

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  • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Some dude at the bar would not shut up about it and the scientist is not one to let some motherfucker just stand around being wrong.

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• Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Recent hands-on experiments determined human feces cannot be made into frozen knives to dismember dogs” is the absolute most that a single sentence can be. The peak has been crested, literature can only stagnate from here.

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  • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For sale, baby shoes, poop knives can’t dismember dogs.

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    • garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      *For sale: baby poop knives, can’t dismember dogs

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• chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why is it always poop knives?

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