“Roman glass cup from the Himlingøje burial site in Denmark, from 2nd and 3rd century, found in graves of a rich or princely family. [Cups like this one] are so well-preserved that finders have used them mistakenly as vases for flowers, without realizing that they were ancient productions.”
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A well-preserved example of a caliga – a #Roman soldiers' leather shoe with hobnails hammered into the leather sole, providing a good traction both in dirt and on rough surfaces. However, on smooth surfaces such as pavement, they were quite slippery. Found in Mainz, dating 1st c. AD
Photo: Musée d'Archéologie nationale et domaine national de Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Original post: https://social.anoxinon.de/@ninawillburger/110937694374863992
This is from a real paper.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X23003176?via%3Dihub
Maybe so. I don't think it's evidence that anarchy is the best solution, just that neolithic societies without hierarchies were still able to achieve amazing things.
But it's not like they were making cars and computers, this is a drainage system. It's very impressive for stone age people, but they are still stone age people.
Prehistoric #baby bottles: marvellous feeding vessels in the shape of #animals from Vösendorf and Oberleis, Austria, dating 1200-800 BC. Baby bottles in the shape of animals are common in late Bronze and early Iron Age Europe.
Photo: Wien Museum
Original: https://social.anoxinon.de/@ninawillburger/110898039703393391
Wow.
Mercury arc valves remain in use in some South African mines and Kenya (at Mombasa Polytechnic - Electrical & Electronic department).
Amazing how we're still using such old technology in some places when we have semiconductors.
That said, a microscope that generates its own light without electricity could be quite useful...
A skein is a coil of yarn or other thread.
Shameful that this is so upvoted.
Zeitgeist Movie: This is a documentary film that explores various conspiracy theories related to religion, politics, and economics. It challenges the viewer to question their beliefs and assumptions about the world.
Zeitgeist is nonsense.
This is going to sound weird, but I would say in a real sense that would be Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, a book about how to write engagingly. It opened my eyes about writing and about doing it in ways that an audience would appreciate over ways that just make you sound pseudo-intellectual. The advice is all very simple, but it definitely made me a better writer and also a better reader.
Good luck with the trials. I can understand the appeal of growing cotton for fiber use. I hope you don't find it as annoying as my wife does. She sticks to wool and alpaca these days. She's not allowed to get a sheep or an alpaca though. :D
Do you spin it yourselves too? My wife is a spinner, but she hates cotton because of how short the fibers are compared to animal hair. When she does it, she has a charkha for it, but she rarely uses it.
Here you go. I put a red rectangle around it so it can be found more easily.
They do appear to be similar to me. They have the spout at the back.