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Like bronze: alloy copper & tin together, when tin only came from a very few places on earth.
by AlbertCory 4y ago
Like bronze: alloy copper & tin together, when tin only came from a very few places on earth.
- drewcoo 4y agoLinen is my usual example of cultural encoding of what we now see as early tech. Making linen from flax is complicated. https://magiclinen.com/blogs/blog/how-is-linen-made https://magiclinen.com/blogs/blog/how-is-linen-made Ridiculously complicated. And there were oral folk tales passed along for years to keep the cultural memory of it. Eventually Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm wrote their versions down. Andersen: https://fairytalez.com/flax/ https://fairytalez.com/flax/ Grimm: https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/175/grimms-fairy-tales/3081/mother-holle/ https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/175/grimms-fairy-tales/3081/mothe... There were cultures thousands of miles apart with their own linen stories and games that all encode linen processing. There are more than these if you look for them: https://ltfai.org/app/uploads/2021/03/Flax-journey.pdf https://ltfai.org/app/uploads/2021/03/Flax-journey.pdf https://folklorefairytales.wordpress.com/2012/09/16/the-discovery-of-flax-from-myths-of-the-norsemen/ https://folklorefairytales.wordpress.com/2012/09/16/the-disc...
- hzay 4y agoI read only Grimm's story, and there's no linenmaking in it?