Oh lol! That looks like a Western Stemmed point! That's the precursoriest projectile point to have chosen.
For ages the model of the Peopling of the Americas was Clovis First - that the people associated with the beautiful fluted Clovis Point tradition were the first through the ice-free corridor. But these Western Stemmed Points kept turning up very early in the PNW and they look like much older points from eastern eurasia. Clovis first was gospel though, so no-one was willing to accept the existence of a clovis precursor, even though these are what, when and where we'd expect a pre-Clovis stone tool tradition to look like.
Nowadays some kind of small pre-clovis presence is widely accepted. So these were quite controversially precursors.
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Hegar@fedia.io · 26 pts · 36d
Oh lol! That looks like a Western Stemmed point! That's the precursoriest projectile point to have chosen.
For ages the model of the Peopling of the Americas was Clovis First - that the people associated with the beautiful fluted Clovis Point tradition were the first through the ice-free corridor. But these Western Stemmed Points kept turning up very early in the PNW and they look like much older points from eastern eurasia. Clovis first was gospel though, so no-one was willing to accept the existence of a clovis precursor, even though these are what, when and where we'd expect a pre-Clovis stone tool tradition to look like.
Nowadays some kind of small pre-clovis presence is widely accepted. So these were quite controversially precursors.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 36d
Thanks for the prehistory lesson! It was genuinely very interesting! 🫶🏼
64bithero@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 36d
The more you know …
Doug@piefed.social · 15 pts · 36d
What’s a postcursor?
P.S. Fuck your
griselbrandalf@reddthat.com · 9 pts · 36d
Shut up and take my upvote already. And you too, OOP!
qualia@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 36d
OP makes a good point.
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 36d
Idk, the joke might be a little too pointed.
suff@piefed.social · 9 pts · 36d
What would the hourglass look like?
raman_klogius@ani.social · 3 pts · 36d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_clock
suff@piefed.social · 2 pts · 36d
Not even remotely old enough.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 36d
candle burning down? with nails or something in it that fall out into a metal plate to PING the time
peripheralneuropathy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 35d
The sun.
suff@piefed.social · 1 pts · 35d
Most likely. Bit boring though.
shroomato@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 36d
A sundial
suff@piefed.social · 1 pts · 35d
World's oldest known sundial is 1500 BC
shroomato@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 35d
Well in its basic form it's a literal stick in the ground, you aren't gonna get anything more ancient than that.
suff@piefed.social · 1 pts · 35d
if you can't read the hours you could just look at the sky.
shroomato@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 35d
I guess, but sun on its own doesn't really fit the definition of a tool
WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 36d
Icon not get it
Krauerking@lemy.lol · 6 pts · 36d
And it was as easy to control as Point and Stick
chattre@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 36d
literally just the Breeze cursor 😭
Redjard@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 36d
Even more so the oxygen cursor, Especially the orange one
Breeze looking similar is not surprising since it's the next kde theme after oxygen.
AFLYINTOASTER@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 36d
Looks like a chicken nugget
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space · 4 pts · 36d
Truly sidesplitting.
yesman@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 36d
That's a big deer, Tharg. We're going to have to double click it.
64bithero@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 36d
Drag and drop ?
elephantium@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 35d
It right-clicked for me