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The knitting thing just doesn't add up at all even if it's kind of clever. Why would you make it from bronze? Why don't you find orders of magnitude more of the
by gorkish 5y ago
The knitting thing just doesn't add up at all even if it's kind of clever. Why would you make it from bronze? Why don't you find orders of magnitude more of these made from wood? Why would someone want to be buried with a knitting jig?
- grenoire 5y agoWhatever wooden artifacts we have from back then usually have a lot of trouble making it to today; think professional tools versus apprentices' tools.
- kelseyfrog 5y agoSurvivorship bias. All the wooden ones disintegrated over the millennia.
- caethan 5y agoIt was found in a woman's grave goods: https://sci-hub.st/10.1007/s00283-013-9403-7 https://sci-hub.st/10.1007/s00283-013-9403-7 Sewing, spinning, weaving, and knitting tools are fairly common grave goods to find in women's graves: spindle whorls, needle cases, bone beaters, etc. As far as wood vs. bronze, almost certainly survivorship bias. The only wooden objects that survive that long are those that have fallen in bogs, where the anoxic environment prevents rot. Normal wooden grave goods will have rotted away by now.