At first I thought why couldn’t it just be decoration but as the article pointed out these people were not just sitting around on the internet, “For me they had to have represented something. It’s not like now where people are wasting time on nothing. There was no Facebook, they weren’t in front of the computer all day. These were busy people doing agriculture. It has to say something to the people there.”
But not knowing much about basalt it is a rock, right? So did they have to hollow out these vessels and shape them out of rock? If so that’s incredible in it’s own right.
But not knowing much about basalt it is a rock, right? So did they have to hollow out these vessels and shape them out of rock? If so that’s incredible in it’s own right.
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Incredible using stone, and copper yes. Especially in some sort of factory line. Like some Old Kingdom carved heads that are from a type of granite which are accurate to the 1/16” and mirror imaged.
Sounds like a manufacturing system, products of a single shop, analogous to the 2nd c AD Samian ware from southern Gaul.