Thanks for pinging this article...
Macaroni humor aside-I don’t get why it is amazing to some archaeologists-and others-that humans were crafting artistic objects from the beginning- to use for adornment, trade goods, currency, etc-humans were apparently never stupid savages, contrary to what mostly racist, old-style democrats types still seem to think-we have obviously always had the spark of intelligence, curiosity and creativity-remains of pottery and other relics of the Jomon culture have been found in digs on the coast of Ecuador-and the DNA of a subgroup of the present Ecuadorians leads back to the Jomon culture in Japan-so yeah-trade and settling in a new place has apparently been a human thing from day one...
A lot of them don't have children, so (speaking of macaroni) they've never seen macaroni-based elementary school art projects.