Posted on 10/21/2024 8:32:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Dr. Akiva Sanders: "Our research allows us a rare glimpse into the lives of children who lived in the area of the Ebla Kingdom, one of the oldest kingdoms in the world. We discovered that at its peak, roughly from 2400 to 2000 BCE, the cities associated with the kingdom began to rely on child labor for the industrial production of pottery. The children worked in workshops starting at the age of seven, and were specially trained to create cups as uniformly as possible - which were used in the kingdom in everyday life and at royal banquets".
As is well known, a person's fingerprints do not change throughout their life. For this reason, the size of the palm can be roughly deduced by measuring the density of the margins of the fingerprint - and from the size of the palm, the age and sex of the person can estimated. The pottery from Tel Hama, on the southern border of the Kingdom of Ebla, was excavated in the 1930s, and since then has been kept in the National Museum in Denmark. From the analysis of the fingerprints of the pottery, it appears that most of them were made by children. In the city of Hama city, two-thirds of the pottery was made by children. The other third was created by older men.
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“Hey look, the kids set up some kind of depression in the ground and are stomping on grapes...”
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Yep... half of our founders were managing a farm, working in dad’s business, in a non-consensual apprenticeship etc at 9 or 10 years old. David Farragut was a USN Midshipman at 9, and at age 11 in the War of 1812, they handed him a British ship captured as a prize and had him in charge of sailing it back to port!
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