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Puzzling prehistoric artifacts served a practical purpose: ropemaking
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Posted on 02/07/2024 11:07:01 AM PST by FarCenter
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posted on
02/07/2024 11:07:01 AM PST
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FarCenter
To: FarCenter
I wonder what they used the rope for?
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posted on
02/07/2024 11:09:10 AM PST
by
PeterPrinciple
(Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
To: FarCenter
“Ritualism was something they used to ascribe everything to,” says Wei Chu, an archaeologist at Leiden University.
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posted on
02/07/2024 11:10:29 AM PST
by
PeterPrinciple
(Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
To: FarCenter
20 inches of rope per minute. That’s impressive.
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posted on
02/07/2024 11:13:05 AM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
To: PeterPrinciple
I wonder what they used the rope for?
They had politicians in those days ??
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posted on
02/07/2024 11:13:14 AM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: PeterPrinciple
"I wonder what they used the rope for?"
The most common use was tying down the giants because they ate so much.
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posted on
02/07/2024 11:15:16 AM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
To: FarCenter
The find is more evidence the “cave man” designation applied to people in the past underestimates their innovative capacities. “People back then weren’t stupid,” Conard says. “They knew how to do all kinds of things.”
I often think the Apostle Paul was one of the best wordsmiths ever........................
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posted on
02/07/2024 11:15:41 AM PST
by
PeterPrinciple
(Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
To: FarCenter
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posted on
02/07/2024 11:16:36 AM PST
by
Cincinnatus.45-70
(What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
To: tet68
I had a similar thought ...
I recommend that one should not carry a rope making tool while in WDC ... J6 and all ...
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posted on
02/07/2024 11:16:58 AM PST
by
ByteMercenary
(Cho Bi Dung and KamalHo are not my leaders.)
To: FarCenter
How was it dated to 35,000 years ago?
To: FarCenter
I like this kind of stuff: Stone Age Man was far more intelligent, and complex, than previously thought. Stone Age Man was creative and adaptable.
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posted on
02/07/2024 11:23:47 AM PST
by
ought-six
(Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
To: Stingray51
“How was it dated to 35,000 years ago?”
Probably by soil strata.
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posted on
02/07/2024 11:25:23 AM PST
by
ought-six
(Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
To: Stingray51
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posted on
02/07/2024 11:25:52 AM PST
by
gundog
( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: FarCenter
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posted on
02/07/2024 11:34:59 AM PST
by
ASOC
(This space for rent)
To: PeterPrinciple
I think they got it wrong.
I think it’s a “arrow” shaft or spear shaft straightener.
Cordage is made by twisting and reverse wrapping with fingers and palms on thighs. One person could make about 20 yards of two ply reverse wrap cordage a day without any tools. Think of kitchen string.
(In the modern world, rope and cordage is twisted on hooks.)
I can’t see how the tool they found could possibly be useful for making rope.
I think the phonies at Science mag are smoking hemp.
King Ludd has spoken.
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posted on
02/07/2024 11:35:46 AM PST
by
KingLudd
To: PeterPrinciple
I wonder what they used the rope for? I know what we could use rope for today.
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posted on
02/07/2024 11:38:22 AM PST
by
Noumenon
(You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
To: Stingray51
Radiocarbon dating works to about 50,000 years ago.
To: KingLudd
The first was found many years ago. Back then we made a reproduction model of it and it absolutely makes great rope just as they claim. Just keep twisting and feeding it.
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posted on
02/07/2024 11:57:00 AM PST
by
Openurmind
(The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
To: FarCenter
That's pretty good, but we still want to know what these dodecahedrons were for:
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posted on
02/07/2024 12:16:29 PM PST
by
MikelTackNailer
(We can never stop failing for the minute we do, we fail.)
To: MikelTackNailer
Not buying the weaving theory?
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posted on
02/07/2024 12:21:26 PM PST
by
gundog
( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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