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If you don’t think humans used to make trash, I have plenty of shell mounds to show you.
by scoofy 2y ago
If you don’t think humans used to make trash, I have plenty of shell mounds to show you.
- pchristensen 2y agoAnd pottery shards.
- ggm 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Testaccio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Testaccio
- bredren 2y agoReminds me of this 2013 report on the earliest cat domestication (~3610 BCE): > The felid bones were found in an ashy matrix in three refuse pits, H172, H35, and H130, with animal bones, pottery sherds, bone tools, and some stone tools... https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1311439110 https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1311439110
- kemotep 2y agoTells are artificial hills that cities, temples, and forts were built on in Ancient Mesopotamia and other nearby places. Neo-Assyrian cities could have impressive fortifications 100 feet tall rising high above the surrounding landscape. And all built by filling in the lower levels with trash and dirt and building on top of it.