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Andrew Curry@spoke32.bsky.social |
A close look at 300,000-year-old pieces of wood shows early Neanderthals were careful planners and skilled woodworkers. “The whole idea of a Stone Age might be wrong,” says co-author Dirk Leder. “Maybe we should be talking about a Wood Age.” www.science.org/content/arti... 🏺🪵🪓
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Dr. Karen Carr
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Both terms privilege the kinds of things men make; why not a basket age, or a string age?
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David Horton
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This has been true for a long time.
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Môr Leidr
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Exactly the words I used after a fantastic exhibition of David Nash sculptures at the NMGW Cardiff, 2019!
Given how skilled Neolithic peoples were at working stone, Nash’s art made me ponder all the amazing Neolithic wood art/sculpture that must have been lost
amp.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Falanx, son of Fenix
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Jean Auel and Jon Clottes had been pushing people to recognise this for nearly half a century now...
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