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Aris G.'s avatar

This was great. I love Q&A posts. You get two smart people for the price of one! (Also I didn’t know that flint knapping was called flint knapping. So yay learning!)

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cosi’s odyssey's avatar

Oh I’m so glad you enjoyed !

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Auzin Ahmadi's avatar

This was super interesting!!!

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cosi’s odyssey's avatar

I’m so glad!! David is the best.

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David Mancke's avatar

Thank you Anubis..? I feel like I should have known about this in advance.

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cosi’s odyssey's avatar

Me too tbh.

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David Mancke's avatar

It is what it is. Where do I send the check though..?

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Glenn Ebo Perry's avatar

Hi, Cosi,

Your fine post got me to rhyming. I think “doggerel” is the mot juste.

30,000 B.C.; kindly do take a seat, with the Cro-Magnon hominids roasting some meat.

The smell is fantastic, and spreads through the vale. Too bad nobody present

Has learned to brew ale.

You’ll see, circling the blaze, in the deepening gloom,

It’s a ravenous wolf pack, who’d love to consume

The flesh of the oryx, on which people feed

It’s attracted these Canidae, a canine breed.

Take this tableau far forward; the Ice Ages end, and the wolves are now dogs.

Dogs are mankind’s best friend.

It will take more millennia til you’ll see the cats, for the people grow grain,

And the grain attracts rats.🐀

So the moggies and doggies are earning their keep, keeping rodents from corn bins,

And wolves from the sheep.

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Am up to Stuff....'s avatar

Agree with your point that archaeologists in academia need to “….should be able to distill it down and make it easy for people to understand because everybody has a right to learn about our shared past.”!!

Oh most definitely!

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