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The Cairo Toe (mander.xyz)

Unearth the #Cairo Toe! 🦶 Dating back to 950-710 BCE, this wooden prosthetic toe from ancient #Egypt, now in the British Museum, reflects remarkable innovation. More than art, it's functional, enhancing mobility. A testament to resilience through the ages.

Original: https://mstdn.science/@furqanshah/111051554688611414

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A portrait of Tenochtitlan (tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl)

A 3D recreation of the capital of the Aztec empire, with comparisons with modern day Mexico City.

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Ancient animation (www.instagram.com)

When you think of animation, do you think of modern technology and computers? What if we showed you an animation dating back 14,000 years?

Discovered in 1868 in France's Laugerie-Basse rock shelter, this tiny (only 3.1 cm) bone disc is like a prehistoric 'gif'!

There is a mountain goat drawing on both sides of the disc and a hole in the middle. When you quickly turn the disc, it creates an optical illusion as if the goat is moving, due to the perfect proportions of the drawings and the alignment of the ridge lines.

Here is a primitive but impressive predecessor of modern animation.

[-] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

Oh like you can hit reverse.esrever tih nac uoy ekil hO

[-] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

I remember it was in the new books section of the school library and I was attracted to it immediately and spent the day reading it instead of paying attention in my classes. I need to read it again. Thanks for bringing it up!

[-] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I read that ages ago. Back in high school, in fact (I'm 46). I don't remember it except the chapter where time is a flock of birds that you have to try to catch to stay youthful. The children can catch them but always let them go and the adults can never catch them.

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[-] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

They discovered an ancient movie theater right next to it.

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[-] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 12 points 1 year ago

Maybe so. I don't think it's evidence that anarchy is the best solution, just that neolithic societies without hierarchies were still able to achieve amazing things.

But it's not like they were making cars and computers, this is a drainage system. It's very impressive for stone age people, but they are still stone age people.

[-] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 12 points 1 year ago

Wheeled carts are not very practical without draught animals to pull them. And the one place they had animals like that, in South America, llamas and the civilizations that utilized them lived in the mountains where wheeled carts aren't practical either.

[-] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 24 points 1 year ago

They say that Native Americans never developed the wheel. They clearly did. For sick dog skateboard tricks.

[-] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

I remember how in The Matrix movies, humans blocked out the sun to stop the computers from taking over. Looks like we're going to ask them whether or not that's a good plan first in our timeline.

[-] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

Not the science we asked for, but the science we need.

[-] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

Fun fact re the parasitic lice: Our head lice evolved with us, but we inherited pubic lice from gorillas much later.

I'm not saying a human and a gorilla got down together, but that's a lot more fun than thinking some idiot slept in a gorilla nest.

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