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I had that experience over and over as a kid reading about early human development, going out and trying to find my area's equivalent of some material and endin

• epicureanideal 4y ago
  In Art History class they mentioned off hand that the people who knew where to find random rare stuff were very valued in early societies. No citation was given though. I imagine in a pre tech world people would develop a sharp eye for “that looks unusual, let’s take some of that and mess with it and see if it’s useful somehow”.
  • MagicMoonlight 4y ago
    Well that and they were literally just the same as we are now. Imagine if you had 80 years to live and nothing but rocks to play with. You'd get pretty good with rocks and you would be pretty desperate to find something new and interesting to play with.
    • hutzlibu 4y ago
      But like you see in the videos, in nature there are a whole lot of other things to play with than rocks and combine it. Wood, soil, bacteria, fire ...