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Refrigeration ?
by harryf 7y ago
Refrigeration ?
- pugworthy 7y agoInteresting idea. Lots of meat from a kill, need to store it, but also protect it from preditors
- ianai 7y agoThis seems like the obvious case. They could probably excavate large areas of ice for mass refrigeration with ease.
- monadic2 7y agoThere are many ways to refrigerate with snow around—everything from burying to immersing in animal fat to curing. I’d guess this was intended at least in part for regular human interaction, e.g. a reliable hunting camp.
- slowmovintarget 7y agoOr ritual, perhaps.
- jp_sc 7y agoThat's the lazy archeologist explanation. What was this building? A temple! What was the purpose of these artifacts? A ritual! And so on for everything. I now believe is just code for "we don't have a clue yet", but growing up, it gave me the wrong impression that acient societies were praying all day long.
- lurker458 7y agoIt's likely that rituals were they way they structured complex activities. Put the food beneath the snow and sing a song, using prescribed steps, so the gods will preserve it. Bandage a wound, put a poultice on it and sing a song, so the spirits will make it heal. Again, using prescribed steps handed over from generation to generation, because they knew it worked but didn't know why.
- bambataa 7y agoWhich makes me wonder when people figured out that refrigeration was a good idea. Presumably they noticed that food out in the sun went bad sooner and took it from there.