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submitted 10 months ago by Stamets@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world

Hella unlikely they were used to knit gloves

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[-] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 27 points 10 months ago

I like how archeologists never come to the conclusion that something could just be an art trend.

Everything has to have a useful purpose even though we all own stuff with no actual purpose.

[-] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 36 points 10 months ago

The default bucket that archeologists throw stuff into if they really don't know is "religious object".

[-] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

Oftentimes, that’s a sort of inside joke. If it’s even remotely probe-shaped, they assume it was used for sex. But since that doesn’t look nice on academic papers, they’ll use “ritual” as a euphemism.

Seriously, archeologists find a lot of ancient dildos.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Maybe 50 years ago. Don't think there's as much holdup now.

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Gotta disagree, I bet they're still finding great-great-great-[...]-grandmother's dildos (or -grandfather's, who knows?) and they hold up just fine, all things considered.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

It's obviously a symbol of power!

[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago

The wiki on this specific object briefly mentions it may have been for decoration

[-] Darthjaffacake@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah it's funny that's never the conclusion but logically it makes sense to not dismiss something as unknown until we're sure it wasn't used for anything else. Still can't wait for future civilizations to be very confused when they see my collection of funny looking coins.

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

How dare you assert my wall of funkopops has no purpose!

[-] Laticauda@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They do come to that conclusion all the time, but in some cases it's impossible to know for sure. If they don't know for sure then they're not going to say it's definitely for decoration only, but they'll list it as an option, which they have done for this object.

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