Catoblepas

Archaeologists study a lot more than ritual spaces, many don’t even have anything to do with that. It’s a joke that archaeologists themselves make, because sometimes people get carried away and use it to explain things they’re unfamiliar with but aren’t ritual related.

Knitting is a technology, and there isn’t evidence it emerged uniformly throughout the world. Think about the environment that Rome is in; what good is something knitted in a hot Mediterranean climate? We have tons of art and literature documenting weaving, which was very important to Romans, but none of knitting. If you have evidence they had it you should publish it.

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.

Before someone posts it, no, it’s not for knitting; there are solid ones that would have been useless for that and knitting isn’t known to have been present in the Roman Empire.

Would you put a fidget spinner in with your gold horde, like some of them have been?

It’s period appropriate, should be fine

sal@mander.xyz, why is this now the appropriate community for this post? Or is this one going to get removed, too?

Are you shitting me?? Sometimes I doubt that I’m face blind and then stuff like this happens. I missed the bit because I didn’t recognize him, lol.

(They still both give me gray hairs!)

That’s the first video where I’ve seen the camera guy nope out (and I don’t blame him). I swear to god half of chemistry YouTube is going to drop dead 30 years early.

Which is part of why they fell to the Spanish. Turns out people don’t like that and will rebel!

Kettle hat for fashion, Spangenhelm for practicality.

I think I played a ROM of that when I was younger! It’s the text based game right?

If you don’t like the game, at least listen to the soundtrack. It’s still one of the best game soundtracks IMO.