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[openhanded]

Surei Doushi I mean they ARE rocks... so you're at least half right! but instead of looking at a rock and going "wow it's a rock" try thinking about why it has its particular shape. if there are sharp edges or steep sides how did they get there? does it look like a natural break? or did someone pound it with another rock?

[momentaryspring]

Ryoga Hibiki I suppose if it wasn't natural, someone might have polished it to make it cleaner. But it would also be smoother if it had been in a river.

[openhanded]

Surei Doushi yeah like that! you can tell a manufactured edge because it has lots of little bits cut out of it. it's very deliberate.

[momentaryspring]

Ryoga Hibiki Did the Acheulean tools include tableware? Or did that come later?

[openhanded]

Surei Doushi you mean bowls and stuff? That came way later. I think the oldest bowl ever found is from 18k years ago but there might be others we haven't discovered yet!

[momentaryspring]

Ryoga Hibiki More like forks and knives that you don't use for stabbing live animals.

[openhanded]

Surei Doushi hmmmm well... ancient egyptians had early versions of forks at their tables. there was a sort of religious stigma associated with them so it took a while for it to catch on in the western world. you can blame the byzantines for that one. thankfully, the Renaissance made forks popular or else we'd still be eating with our fingers all the time

as far as knives go it was traditional to kill a thing and then use the knife to slice it into little pieces. but butter knives are only a couple hundred years old.

[momentaryspring]

Ryoga Hibiki Religious stigma? Why? Did it look too much like a pitchfork?

As far as I'm concerned, butter knives are a step back in knife development. They're barely even useful for butter.

[openhanded]

Surei Doushi no something was written in a text that said forks were like knives and therefore were an affront to god

Butter knives basically came about because drunk rich people kept stabbing themselves in the mouth.

[momentaryspring]

Ryoga Hibiki I had no idea that cutlery was so divisive.

You know, archaelogy sounds pretty interesting. At least if your class is anything like what I've learned so far. You teach at the university?

[openhanded]

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