• Tar_AlcaranEnglish
    54•7 months ago

    They do, but the scientific phrasing is “ritual purposes”.

    • @StrayceEnglish
      54•7 months ago

      That’s academic for “we have no idea what this was for”. Except in the case of “fertility ritual” – that means it’s a sex toy.

    • TheEntity
      12•7 months ago

      Now that you mention it, it’s commonly used for the contemporary idiocy too.

    • @StrayceEnglish
      6•7 months ago

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  • El BartoEnglish
    6•7 months ago

    I don’t get it. How are the archeology articles written, then?

    Edit: I get it now.

    • @Knusper@feddit.deEnglish
      18•7 months ago

      Humans have this tendency of assuming everyone else is dumb. Whether that’s their neighbor, a different generation, a foreign nation, different skin colors, different religions, different species or indeed extinct civilizations, pretty much everyone is assumed to be barbaric, until proven otherwise.

      And so, yeah, it’s usually a revelation like wow, they had calendars, they must have actually been smarter than we thought.

      • El BartoEnglish
        11•7 months ago

        Got it. Thanks. And yup, I agree. I’ve always found silly that people are stunned that others in the past had complex knowledge. Like, bitch, the way you live now is thanks to the efforts of those in the past.

        Imagine people 2000 years from today, using quantum tech for a lot of things, AI, transportation, etc, saying “whoa, can you believe it?! They already had hadron colliders in the 2000s! WHOA!” Then we’d be like, “bitch, all those things you’re enjoying in your time is thanks to us. We are the ones who should be impressed, not the other way around. Like, you’re still using microwaves to cook stuff?!?!?! Whoa!”