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Holy fuck this carving looks absolutely beautiful

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You too, huh? Something about it speaks to me. The simplicity, clean lines, dunno?

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I think it’s something about the skill needed to make this and the fact that no machines were involved. It’s quite something though.

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4 points

Modernist art deco, like it was made in the 1930s

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Not just the clean lines, but the smooth curves too. It’s difficult to do something like this and not make it all bumpy and uneven. Definitely lots of skill and time involved.

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71 points

What’s the meme here

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That the Sumerian’s will use anything but metric.

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Apparently, muricans are a lost tribe of Sumerians.

Hold on a sec. I need to write up some golden tablets or something.

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Well you see, in 1793, 'Merica requested the metric artifacts from France so we could be metric too. France sent over a kilogram, but the shipment was lost at sea. And that was a little sad.

All joking aside, US feet, inches, pounds, and so on have been secretly really metric since 1893.

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This guy doesn’t get bronze age humor.

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Paleolithic mfers will see you writing a stone tablet and think “this fool doesn’t know how to sharpen a rock” 😂😂😂

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16 points

It’s a screenshot of a Twitter post, that’s a meme right?

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Well if we want to get pedantic, every unique thing passed around and spread is a meme. Jokes, art styles, idioms, words, greetings, most social behavior really. And you can go a step further and say diseases, species, even all of life is a meme.

And if there ever was a place to use this definition of meme it would be… LinguisticMemes, but this is a good second place.

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Well if we want to get pedantic

Let’s! You are absolutely right, of course.

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If I remember correctly, Homo sapiens sapiens was not only coetaneous with Mammoths, but we are widely considered to be one, if not the main cause of their extintion.

Also constructions like Gobekli tepe, with it’s carvings and decorations, predate the extintion of Mammoths by something like 6000 years.

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Well, that’s a new word on me. Thought spell check corrected contemporary.

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Hell, there were still mammoths around when the pyramids at Giza were built.

Pygmy mammoths, on an island in northern Siberia, but still.

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Count it!

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Well, ice age ended and elephants still live.

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I… am so disappointed this didn’t go where, for a split second, my brain thought it was going.

Homo sapiens sapiens was not only coetaneous with Mammoths, but we are widely considered to be one

Chickens are dinosaurs - and humans are mammoths!!

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birds are the continuation of the theropod dinosaur lineage.

humans are the continuation of the early synapsid lineage also present at the time (which later gave rise to the early mammal progenitor).

when people say birds are dinosaurs they mean the lineage didn’t branch as much as it did for humans, which I think is more survivorship bias than anything.

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People say birds are dinosaurs because every living thing is in every clade of it’s ancestors which means they are dinosaurs. They’re also a lot of other things from all of the other clades so they’re not saying that birds are just dinosaurs, but that they are part of Dinosauria and every other clade of their ancestors and so too will all of their descendants be.

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Birds are dinosaurs. Humans are not mammoths

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Don’t tell me what I am and am not

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Weren’t there like full blown civilizations at that point? Kinda weird to refer to mammoths as if it were some stone age prehistoric period and be surprised that someone could craft something like this then lol

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I think the pyramids at Giza were a few millennia old at that point eh?

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Not millennia, but several centuries.

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Oh, silly me, haha.

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Several, yes. Egypt, Uruk, Indus, etc

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To be fair it’s still hard to get over that Mammoths were still around at that point; it really feels like they’re from a much earlier era. Also hard to really grasp how advanced people were even that early on.

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Just using some tiny mammoth population on an isolated island in Siberia to state “MAMMOTHS WERE STILL ROAMING THE EARTH WHEN BLAH BLAH BLAH” is somewhat disingenuous.

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Is it a lie though?

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Roaming the earth means roaming all - or at least a very significant portion of - the earth, not some very isolated region. So I would say yes - if some tiny population of mammoths was still alive in some limited area at this time, they were not ‘roaming the earth’.

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Also pretending that 4000 years ago humans were still hunter gatherers or something (it’s kind of implied in the wording imo). 4000 years ago there were plenty of fairly developed civilisations around.

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