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Tagging @oldshrewsburyian because I feel like you'll enjoy this and also have some Thoughts.

systlin Something I find incredibly cool is that they've found neandertal bone tools made from polished rib bones, and they couldn't figure out what they were for for the life of them. Until, of course, they showed it to a traditional leatherworker and she took one look at it and said "Oh yeah sure that's a leather burnisher, you use it to close the pores of leather and work oil into the hide to make it waterproof. Mine looks just the same." "Wait you're still using the exact same fucking thing 50,000 years later???" " Well, yeah. We've tried other things. Metal scratches up and damages the hi

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