This is kind of how I feel about the idea of the very first writing being chiseled in stone or engraved on clay tablets.
If there was a much older civilization that never did that but invented paper and pencils instead, we'd probably never know it.
Writing on the ground is probably No. 1 then maybe carving with a stone into wood/bark as No. 2 but yeah, lots of stuff we will never see or know about because they werent preserved.
Or because it's not immediately recognizable as writing. I wonder how long it would have taken archeologists to figure out the quipu was actually a knot-based writing system without the Spanish mentioning their use by the Incas in their records of the invasion.
Not in my town. There's only a few things you're allowed to play in the nude where I live; saxophone, xylophone, sousaphone, basically only if it ends in phone.
Oh, and here I was thinking that rocking with your cock out was stimming in the shower during a crisis in existential dread. Well, you learn something new every day.
36 Comments
PillowTalk420@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 1y
Music is definitely cooler than wearing pants.
jerkface@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 1y
Wearing pants is like the opposite of music, in terms of cool at least.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 34 pts · 1y
Isnt this just because pants dont leave a lot of traces after tens of thousands of years, while a bone flute is much more likely to do so?
mobotsar@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 1y
That and that people used to wear other sorts of garments that weren't such a pain to make.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 1y
Loincloth people unite!
blargle@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 1y
This is kind of how I feel about the idea of the very first writing being chiseled in stone or engraved on clay tablets. If there was a much older civilization that never did that but invented paper and pencils instead, we'd probably never know it.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 1y
Writing on the ground is probably No. 1 then maybe carving with a stone into wood/bark as No. 2 but yeah, lots of stuff we will never see or know about because they werent preserved.
deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 1y
Or because it's not immediately recognizable as writing. I wonder how long it would have taken archeologists to figure out the quipu was actually a knot-based writing system without the Spanish mentioning their use by the Incas in their records of the invasion.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 1y
The quipu is very cool, never heard of it before. Thanks for sharing :)
Geobloke@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
That's assuming that people like Halfdan don't exist ever
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br · 2 pts · 1y
The earliest proof of clothing we have are needles that survive the pass of time, but not the clothes they made.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de · 12 pts · 1y
You don't need pants if your tools have straps
queermunist@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 1y
Robes.
spaduf@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 1y
And skirts/kilts.
blindbunny@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 1y
I see it as the golden age where you can play a flute pantsless
baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 1y
you can still do that
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Not in my town. There's only a few things you're allowed to play in the nude where I live; saxophone, xylophone, sousaphone, basically only if it ends in phone.
dumbass@leminal.space · 5 pts · 1y
Just say it's a flutaphone.
SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 1y
So you can be nude and play on your phone is what Iām hearing.
iii@mander.xyz · 9 pts · 1y
Someone recreated this flute
Zagorath@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 1y
Dammit, I wanted to actually hear it!
JustJack23@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 1y
https://youtu.be/sHy9FOblt7Y
Zagorath@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y
Thanks!!
PugJesus@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Pants are a barbarian invention anyway!
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
Tell that to the legions in Teutoburg forest, oh wait my ancestors slaughtered them!
JustJack23@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 1y
Wearing pants will not get you laid, having a sick flute will...
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 1y
Robes were easier to make and were a one size fits all
niktemadur@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Here's another hot take with the same data:
Pants may disintegrate, but flutes last forever!
Nerrad@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
The tyranny of pants. Set me free, music!
mumblerfish@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
And thats where "rock with your cock out" and "jam with your clam out" comes from.
Death_Equity@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Oh, and here I was thinking that rocking with your cock out was stimming in the shower during a crisis in existential dread. Well, you learn something new every day.
bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
Stimming, cock out and Lemmy. You got it bro
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Where do you think Satyrs came from?
Structure7528@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
MFs will say humanity never had a golden age š
courgette@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Good time
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
Sounds nice