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> > The basic shaping is estimated to have taken around 200 hours, and in total the recreation likely took more than 370 hours. > Nearly a year of "full time"
by pinkmuffinere 2mo ago
> > The basic shaping is estimated to have taken around 200 hours, and in total the recreation likely took more than 370 hours.
> Nearly a year of "full time" work at 40hrs/week went into this
Sorry, I think you may be mistaken? From the section you quote, it looks like it's about 370 hours, or 9 weeks of full time effort. That's still a lot, but certainly not nearly a year.
- Nition 2mo agoI can also imagine that someone with a lot of practice might be significantly faster than some unskilled researchers. I also don't think it rules out it being something for a child. It's not so rare to do big projects for you kids even today, over many evenings and weekends. And when you don't have any books to read or screens to watch...
- pinkmuffinere 2mo agoYa, I tend to agree. I think I personally have spent 9 weeks of effort on gifts for 2-3 people in my lifetime, and I don't even have kids yet.
- samudrijan 2mo agoThat’s because you don’t have kids yet.
- broken-kebab 2mo agoNot being a hunter-gatherer also helps, I imagine.
- thayne 2mo agoIt could also be passed down through multiple siblings and possibly generations. And possibly the creation of it was itself a pasttime.
- doctoboggan 2mo agoYes you are right not sure how I flubbed that one. Made an edit in my comment.
- samudrijan 2mo agoToo busy thinking about sex and religion.