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[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 91 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Holy fuck this carving looks absolutely beautiful

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago (8 children)

You too, huh? Something about it speaks to me. The simplicity, clean lines, dunno?

[–] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

I think it’s something about the skill needed to make this and the fact that no machines were involved. It’s quite something though.

[–] bamfic@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Modernist art deco, like it was made in the 1930s

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[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 71 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 105 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That the Sumerian’s will use anything but metric.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Apparently, muricans are a lost tribe of Sumerians.

Hold on a sec. I need to write up some golden tablets or something.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Well you see, in 1793, 'Merica requested the metric artifacts from France so we could be metric too. France sent over a kilogram, but the shipment was lost at sea. And that was a little sad.

All joking aside, US feet, inches, pounds, and so on have been secretly really metric since 1893.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

eh.

Fun fact. if you use your knucklebones to count instead of fingers, and you use multiplication instead of addition you can get to 144 counting on your fingers. (i.e. one digit on the second hand is equal to a full hand- 12- on the first.)

yeah. some bullshit about that being why we have 12 hours, and 12 inches in a foot, is totally going into those golden tablets.

(IIRC, we have 12 hours because there was 10 hours of daylight in Egypt, and an hour on either end for twilight. that evolved into the 24 hour system we have today.)

I think I'll call my new religion ~~Bullcrap~~ ~~Bulk'rap~~ bulq'rap.

[–] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You can count up to 1023 without knucklebones if you use a positional representation.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sumerians also tried to metrify, but the copper weights they bought mysteriously corroded

[–] vonxylofon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago
[–] TheVelvetGentleman@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This guy doesn't get bronze age humor.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Paleolithic mfers will see you writing a stone tablet and think "this fool doesn't know how to sharpen a rock" 😂😂😂

[–] kamiheku@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's a screenshot of a Twitter post, that's a meme right?

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well if we want to get pedantic, every unique thing passed around and spread is a meme. Jokes, art styles, idioms, words, greetings, most social behavior really. And you can go a step further and say diseases, species, even all of life is a meme.

And if there ever was a place to use this definition of meme it would be... LinguisticMemes, but this is a good second place.

[–] kamiheku@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Well if we want to get pedantic

Let's! You are absolutely right, of course.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 47 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

If I remember correctly, Homo sapiens sapiens was not only coetaneous with Mammoths, but we are widely considered to be one, if not the main cause of their extintion.

Also constructions like Gobekli tepe, with it's carvings and decorations, predate the extintion of Mammoths by something like 6000 years.

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hell, there were still mammoths around when the pyramids at Giza were built.

Pygmy mammoths, on an island in northern Siberia, but still.

[–] Pips@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 months ago
[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Well, that's a new word on me. Thought spell check corrected contemporary.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well, ice age ended and elephants still live.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I... am so disappointed this didn't go where, for a split second, my brain thought it was going.

Homo sapiens sapiens was not only coetaneous with Mammoths, but we are widely considered to be one

Chickens are dinosaurs - and humans are mammoths!!

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

birds are the continuation of the theropod dinosaur lineage.

humans are the continuation of the early synapsid lineage also present at the time (which later gave rise to the early mammal progenitor).

when people say birds are dinosaurs they mean the lineage didn't branch as much as it did for humans, which I think is more survivorship bias than anything.

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[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 39 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Weren't there like full blown civilizations at that point? Kinda weird to refer to mammoths as if it were some stone age prehistoric period and be surprised that someone could craft something like this then lol

[–] MadBob@feddit.nl 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think the pyramids at Giza were a few millennia old at that point eh?

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not millennia, but several centuries.

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[–] SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Several, yes. Egypt, Uruk, Indus, etc

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

To be fair it's still hard to get over that Mammoths were still around at that point; it really feels like they're from a much earlier era. Also hard to really grasp how advanced people were even that early on.

[–] SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Just using some tiny mammoth population on an isolated island in Siberia to state "MAMMOTHS WERE STILL ROAMING THE EARTH WHEN BLAH BLAH BLAH" is somewhat disingenuous.

[–] witx@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 4 points 2 months ago

Also pretending that 4000 years ago humans were still hunter gatherers or something (it's kind of implied in the wording imo). 4000 years ago there were plenty of fairly developed civilisations around.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (4 children)
[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 months ago

Locusts ARE grasshoppers. If enough grasshoppers group up in the same area they literally become locusts and fuck everything up.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locust

[–] prayer@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe, but a locus is a type of grasshopper.

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[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Ur mom is a locust. Huht huht huht.

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[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

tite (or titi) means penis in my language

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[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's nothing; Tigers and Pandas are still around in the same time period as the electronic device you used to post this!

When people are using mental interface devices to gravitate to their Mars colony it'll be such a mindbender to realize ye olde memes were being made at the same time all those mammalian fossils from extinct species like elephants and rhinos were carbon dated to!

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago

How much for the weight? I'll take two.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

The eyes don't make sense to me. How did they know to use this pattern? Are there some really big grasshoppers out there?

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

No doubt there are insects big enough to be able to see the patterns on the eyes without magnification.

[–] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

An alternative that I like to use in the lab is squinting and holding the sample really close to my face. Perhaps they used my method if the bugs weren't big enough?

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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
  1. Exactly this. Just eyesight & time.
  2. Not to mention that some insects even have a bit of contrast between the lenses so it's easier to understand they are compounded.
  3. And additionally due to individual lenses compounded eyes arent smooth - by reflecting light at different angles you can make the "bumps" obvious.
  4. Also if there is like a water droplet on grasshoppers eyes you can clearly see it's surface structure. Just like you can see individual pixels on your (high dpi phone?) screen the same way.

Tho I bet they didn't study this ones eyes:

It's called a fairy wasp (wiki/Megaphragma_mymaripenne) and it's only the third smallest insect known.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago

I'm sure they had plenty of experience with bugs in their environment, both alive and dead. I'm sure you can see the eyes pretty well close up.

[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

The aliens lent them a magnifying glass

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