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[–] 26 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    What’s a postcursor?

    P.S. Fuck your

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago*

    OP makes a good point.

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  • Idk, the joke might be a little too pointed.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    What would the hourglass look like?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    World's oldest known sundial is 1500 BC

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Well in its basic form it's a literal stick in the ground, you aren't gonna get anything more ancient than that.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    Icon not get it

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    And it was as easy to control as Point and Stick

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    Looks like a chicken nugget

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    literally just the Breeze cursor 😭

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    That's a big deer, Tharg. We're going to have to double click it.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    Truly sidesplitting.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    It right-clicked for me

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