I wish I had made my career in ancient history or anthropology sometimes. These sorts of discoveries fascinate me:
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Tools fascinate me too. I am kind of a McGiver like my dad and am always trying to think outside the box. Not long ago, they found some tools that had been buried in the foothills here in Boulder. On one of them, they found camel hairs. They dated back thousands of years!!!!! That continental drift really happened!
OMG, Susie, camel hairs in Boulder really sets my mind to creating a story. There’s evidence that people traveled great distances pre-columbian era to a site in Louisiana as sort of a huge multi-tribal gathering. Trade and marriages were the object, I suspect. A friend and I had begun a co-written book using that as a central theme, but that was many years ago and I’ve lost touch. One day I’d like to revive that story.
You should!
This is fascinating!
I thought so too Celestine! It just sends my mind into creative mode thinking of all the possibilities.
I love this stuff, too! In my next reincarnation, I hope I’m an archeologist.
It’s all very fascinating. I’d love to know what they considered as music back then though. Did each person just play random notes or did they create tunes, remember them to play again and actually have others copy them? We’re they used to lure birds to kill for food or did they have a top ten chart of the best tunes. Rather than be an archeologist if I come back, I want to work on a time machine so I can go back for my answers.
Very good point. Everything we *think* we know is pure speculation based on what we *think* we know. A time machine sounds like a worthwhile endeavor.