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MFs will say humanity never had a golden age 😒
Here’s another hot take with the same data:
Pants may disintegrate, but flutes last forever!Robes were easier to make and were a one size fits all
Isnt this just because pants dont leave a lot of traces after tens of thousands of years, while a bone flute is much more likely to do so?
This is kind of how I feel about the idea of the very first writing being chiseled in stone or engraved on clay tablets. If there was a much older civilization that never did that but invented paper and pencils instead, we’d probably never know it.
Writing on the ground is probably No. 1 then maybe carving with a stone into wood/bark as No. 2 but yeah, lots of stuff we will never see or know about because they werent preserved.
Or because it’s not immediately recognizable as writing. I wonder how long it would have taken archeologists to figure out the quipu was actually a knot-based writing system without the Spanish mentioning their use by the Incas in their records of the invasion.
The quipu is very cool, never heard of it before. Thanks for sharing :)
