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That they have a skelatal reconstruction of a persons face with similarities to the sculptue from the same site, it then could pehaps also be the first evidence
by metalman 2y ago
That they have a skelatal reconstruction of a persons face with similarities to the sculptue from the same site, it then could pehaps also be the first evidence for a comisioned work, and any evidence for industry and common curency would support that.....the first sale
- Insanity 2y agoThe article doesn’t mention how old the found skeleton is, or I missed it. Would be a huge coincidence imo given the large timespan, and perhaps more so an artifact of humans looking for similarities.
- metalman 2y agoYour observation, is of course, valid. Also valid is the fact that those people like STUFF!!!, lots of stuff,stuff that WE like, and that in many ways we can look.at there stuff, and know exaxtly how it was used, and we dont just give good stuff away, so it is reasonable to expect and look for the mechanisms by which they created, expressed,and honored, value. Given that "currency" is a mental construct , the known fact of things with immence value, now, litteraly bieng childs toys, to be lost in the dirt, and aluminum bieng the most valuable element, but now totaly dismissed as a possible currency, points to a need to see that distant time from the subtlest of clues. And yes its not pure science, but pure science can no longer be considered pure, and as long as we are not out on some wild truely impossible thoeretical precipice, then , hey, its a very cool possibility. The possible subject WAS wearing a fox tooth neclace, and 12000 years after this internment, they were honoring foxes and dressing in there pelts,.....as shown in statuary.... in the first know megalithic settlments not so far away,in Turkey, catyl hylueac or something its called.