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PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to Archaeology@mander.xyzEnglish · 4 days ago

A mammoth tusk boomerang from Poland is 40,000 years old

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A mammoth tusk boomerang from Poland is 40,000 years old

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PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to Archaeology@mander.xyzEnglish · 4 days ago
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The boomerang is a one-of-a-kind find from the last place archaeologists expected.
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    it’s marked with deep, wide incisions, and they contain traces of red pigment. The boomerang was clearly made to be used, but it wasn’t purely utilitarian; someone wanted this thing to look cool while it was whizzing through the air.

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      Some parts of being human are universal

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      I’m pretty sure it was because red stripes make it go faster.

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          (I’m a bit disgusted at how much that turned me on. That’s how I know it’s a quality turn on tho.)

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            Happy cake day

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              Yaay, thx!

              Last cake day closer to 2000 than 2050.

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      go-faster stripes?

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