> “We can now confirm that these [...] balls from Yanghai are the oldest [...] balls in Eurasia,” says Patrick Wertmann, an archaeologist at the University of Z

> “We can now confirm that these [...] balls from Yanghai are the oldest [...] balls in Eurasia,” says Patrick Wertmann, an archaeologist at the University of Zurich and lead author of the recent study. “They were life tools, used for play or useful training.” Sorry to be childish, but it's totally the elephant in the room. Now that that's out of the way, I absolutely love stories like this because they remind me that there hasn't been much fundamental change in the last several thousand years. Humans pretty much are what we are. Moral frameworks, political philosophy, and technologies shift, but the substrate remains.