Spyke

Isnt this just because pants dont leave a lot of traces after tens of thousands of years, while a bone flute is much more likely to do so?

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mobotsarreply
sh.itjust.works

That and that people used to wear other sorts of garments that weren't such a pain to make.

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blarglereply
sh.itjust.works

This is kind of how I feel about the idea of the very first writing being chiseled in stone or engraved on clay tablets. If there was a much older civilization that never did that but invented paper and pencils instead, we'd probably never know it.

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discuss.tchncs.de

Writing on the ground is probably No. 1 then maybe carving with a stone into wood/bark as No. 2 but yeah, lots of stuff we will never see or know about because they werent preserved.

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deoreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

Or because it's not immediately recognizable as writing. I wonder how long it would have taken archeologists to figure out the quipu was actually a knot-based writing system without the Spanish mentioning their use by the Incas in their records of the invasion.

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That's assuming that people like Halfdan don't exist ever

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The earliest proof of clothing we have are needles that survive the pass of time, but not the clothes they made.

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lemmy.ml

I see it as the golden age where you can play a flute pantsless

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P00ptartreply
lemmy.world

Not in my town. There's only a few things you're allowed to play in the nude where I live; saxophone, xylophone, sousaphone, basically only if it ends in phone.

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Wearing pants will not get you laid, having a sick flute will...

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Here's another hot take with the same data:
Pants may disintegrate, but flutes last forever!

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lemmy.world

And thats where "rock with your cock out" and "jam with your clam out" comes from.

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lemmy.world

Oh, and here I was thinking that rocking with your cock out was stimming in the shower during a crisis in existential dread. Well, you learn something new every day.

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