Goblets (top) and miniature vessels (bottom) from Hama Period JStephen Lumsden, courtesy National Museum of Denmark
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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Goblets (top) and miniature vessels (bottom) from Hama Period JStephen Lumsden, courtesy National Museum of Denmark
Idle hands are the tool of the devil.
Children should be seen and not heard.
I’m going to haul this out when the cubs start complaining about cleaning their rooms.
:^) “Instead of watching TV, you’re going to pottery class on weeknights.”
Probably. Just like child labor fuels cobalt mining in several parts of Africa right now. Cobalt is needed in our computers and EV cars.
No of course they didn’t use child labor. Everyone knows that 4000 years ago kids sat around until age 18 doing nothing./s
Who ever thought this was a question?
Some jobs only tiny hands can do. And they didn’t have I-phone factories back then.
Back then it was called apprenticeship and learning a trade. Cups are easy beginner work.
[Did Child Labor Fuel the Ancient Pottery Industry?]
I tell you what....if I keep getting these Pottery Barn catalogs I’m going to opt out of getting mail......the bucket says we’re blind to their tyranny.....(sets up the pins...)
It is only in fairly recent times that children.
Have the luxury of not working from a young age.
Ask any one that grew up on a farm.
“Did Child Labor Fuel the Ancient Pottery Industry?”
Reparations for descendants of ancient child-laborers must be prioritized! /s
And those children that grew up working or doing chores wind up with excellent work ethic as adults.
Today parents think its just great to give that little 5 year old kid a cell phone. And this kid grows up being a cell phone zombie walking around continuously texting or whatever. And can’t hold a job.
I had my first paying job at 14. At 15 I worked on farms. At 16 I went out of state as a grain truck driver. At 17 I had a full time job at a gas station. At 18 is was Army time.
Back in the day, kids were adults as soon as they were able to walk outside of their residence.
My view has been that a lot of inventions and prehistoric art was entirely due to kids having no TV or smartphones fooling with stuff to keep busy, along with dirty dog double-daring each other to, for example, jump on the floating log to cross to that island and such. :^)
“...it is very easy to control children...”
Written by a childless person.
Shouldn’t the bucket be on your head?
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