The evidence shows!

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PillowTalk420@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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 (8 replies)

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 (1 reply)

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 (4 replies)

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 (2 replies)

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 (1 reply)

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 (1 reply)

Robes.

spaduf@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 1y

And skirts/kilts.

blindbunny@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 1y (4 replies)

I see it as the golden age where you can play a flute pantsless

baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 1y (3 replies)

you can still do that

P00ptart@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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 I’m hearing.

iii@mander.xyz · 9 pts · 1y (3 replies)
Zagorath@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Dammit, I wanted to actually hear it!

JustJack23@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)
Zagorath@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y

Thanks!!

PugJesus@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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 (2 replies)

And thats where "rock with your cock out" and "jam with your clam out" comes from.

Death_Equity@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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 šŸ˜’

courgette@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y

Sounds nice