Left: a board-game piece made from whalebone at the end of the 6th century CE, found in Gnistahögen near Uppsala, Sweden (photograph by Bengt Backlund, Uppland County Museum). Right: the bone structure of the gaming piece compared with reference bone from minke whale (photograph by Rudolf Gustavsson, Societas Archaeologica Upsaliensis, SAU). Credit: Bengt Backlund/Rudolf Gustavsson
1 posted on
06/17/2018 4:13:35 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
So? Not a comment to the OP personally, just a comment about the title. Humans have been smart and resourceful for thousands of years. This should not be a surprise.
To: SunkenCiv
The Eskimos and Aleute people have been hunting wales in the Pacific Northwest for thousands of years.
They take the skin boat to tuna town.
5 posted on
06/17/2018 4:37:33 PM PDT by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
To: SunkenCiv
They're still eating it. Most Norwegian cuisine is based on a dare.
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