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[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 93 points 1 year ago

Putting the entire story in a tag is the most tumblr thing ever

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 1 year ago

tumblr greentext

[-] juergen@lemmy.sdf.org 86 points 1 year ago

Somewhat boringly, the archaeologists posit that the bones may have been associated with cult practices.

Sometimes I wonder what archaeologists a few millennia down the line will think about small polymer statuettes of human females with disproportionately large breasts, but without discernible genitalia...

[-] Windex007@lemmy.world 66 points 1 year ago
[-] Chiarottide@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

To be fair, almost anything not strictly necessary for survival is technically a ritual. Birthday party? Ritual. Saying "bless you" after someone sneezes? Ritual. Giving your sheep ankle bones to the winner? Ritual. Shaking hands? Believe it or not, ritual.

[-] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 8 points 1 year ago

It's a good one, but it is missing the fertility ritual angle.

[-] juergen@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

This is gold :D

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 year ago

Cult and religious are archaeologist-speak for we don't see a practical purpose and have no idea. I'm going to hold on to "they buried the god-tier sheep bone gamer girl with her wins." Come to think of it, god-tier equals cult figure, maybe you can pray to her for wins

[-] lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 year ago

Looking through an archeological lens, sheep bone games and cult practices probably look the same. Imagine thousands of years from now, they'll probably see like football fans as a cult.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago
[-] Liz@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago

It very strongly depends on how you're using the word cult.

[-] juergen@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Thousands of years from now?

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

If those PVC figures also loose their paint, then they will think they weren't painted in the first place. A new style of statues will emerge by the name of "neo-millenialism", who will make gray-colored anime figurines without understanding anything about anime at all.

Then a linguist finds a bunch of image files and documentation on how to read them, and reproduces them. the images will be photographs of these anime figurines. The followers of the neo-millleniallism (calling themselves gatekeepers) accuse the linguist of fabricating such images and making up such stories like their fertility goddess being actually called Super Sonico, and in true 4chan church fashion, they block a pool from access until the linguist will admit their scam. The gatekeepers instead being laughed off, with the worst of them being fined.

[-] Malgas@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

There's a running gag in archaeology that variations on "ritual purposes" actually means "I have no idea what this was for".

That said, there has historically been a connection between certain divination practices and games of chance, so this could easily be both.

[-] Godnroc@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

"D'at's hawt."

[-] Donkter@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Gaming is often hard to distinguish from cult behavior.

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

F

And she earned it

[-] machiabelly@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Bruh, how am I supposed to get burried with my Victoria 2 communist speed run

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

She who dies with the most bones, wins.

[-] propter_hog@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Wait is that why dice are called bones?

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

Yes, if you rattle these they sound like dice too (not a joke).

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

progamer move

[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Bronze Age, but Diamond League.

[-] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

chicks rock sicko-fem

[-] yamanii@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

Cool but not really meme is it?

[-] Gloomy@mander.xyz 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Let's say it's a postmodern interpretation of the meme idea.

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