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mythweaver

- Sappho, fragment 188 (trans. Anne Carson)

this racist website keeps deleting nader. he has been on tumblr since the beginning of the genocide and he's been in communication with me for years. in the span of 24 hours they have completely wiped every attempt he's made at creating a new account to fundraise for his father's cancer treatment

he has a long way to go after having to start a new gfm so anything you can spare would be much appreciated. please get better, tumblr

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tagging for reach

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rathayibacter

cracking myself up thinking about the movement towards simplified forms in cave paintings

rathayibacter

grug: grug must paint every hair on buffalo in realistic detail

thog: grug can chill out, audience know what buffalo look like. just do one line like thog

rathayibacter

thog: cave painting world no longer look for photorealism. expression of form and movement is new frontier

grug: but then how will grug demonstrate high level of skill? grug have art degree

thog: any caveman represent buffalo as it is. grug must represent what it means to grug

grug: hm. this will challenge grug. but grug enjoy rising to occasion

Torment Orestes STAT

Some rainy seahorses as respite after the heatwave

Watch the original

littlestpersimmon

The endling and the herald

littlestpersimmon

The Woodcarver's Gentle Hands

tajrishgp

Can we popularize this. Please

elbiotipo

Basically, if you say "this historical thing is a human universal", ask yourself, did it also happen in the Americas? Because the Americas developed thousands of years of civilization completely independent from Eurasia. Many of those broad claims about earliest "human" history and civilization are based on the Middle East and the Mediterranean. Not even China or India are considered most of the time, let alone Africa or the Americas or Oceania, which had multiple different independent origins of agriculture and social organization.

elbiotipo

As a practical example, any theory of the origin of writing cannot only study the Sumerians. You need at least to consider the origin of writing in China and India. Even if you operate with the assumption (highly debatable) that writing from the Middle East influenced them, you cannot just assign the same factors to it.

And you ESPECIALLY have to take into account the invention of writing (Maya scripts) and proto-writing in the Americas. These were created completely differently from other writing systems, sometimes radically differently (Andean quipus). You cannot ignore them.

This is the same with everything: the origin of agriculture, cities, social organization, warfare, anything you consider a "human universal". You cannot only work with Eurasia. You cannot ignore Africa and you cannot ignore Oceania. But America, in particular, is the key to understanding history in a complete picture.

aroundmeblackbats

I actually would love to learn more about how writing and agriculture and trade etc. all developed in the Americas. I’ve researched a lot of that stuff for conworld development/it’s just fun to know things reasons but I do think most of what I’ve read has been about Europe and a little bit about Asia.

OP (or anyone else) do you have recommendations for books I can pick up to learn this stuff? I doubt there’s as many books for interested laypeople specifically because of the biases in this post.

please don’t feel obligated to do my homework for me. I also have Google. I’m not always sure where the line is between “asking people to educate me” (rude, tiring) and “asking people to tell me more about their areas of interest and study” (a friendly interaction one can have). I am aiming for the latter.

elbiotipo

I would have to think a lot for books, but if you want introductory, well presented yet well researched information about everything in pre-columbian Americas, go right here and watch this channel

Welcome to the Ancient Americas YouTube channel. I’m your host, Pete and together, we will explore the rich and beautiful pre-columbian hist

I cannot recommend it enough.

yohjimuse

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hylianengineer

@copperbadge this seems up your alley

copperbadge

If the system ain't broke, don't fix it, I guess! Accounting may not be the oldest profession, but someone had to keep the books for them.

I mean, in theory I know that Excel is based on the structure of earlier accounting technology that's been around for hundreds of years -- what do we think we did to track commerce before computers? -- but it still kind of blows my mind to, for example, look at my ancestor's journal from a whaling voyage in 1770 and see spreadsheets in the back.

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self-loving-vampire

According to the book I'm reading, proto-Cuneiform writing seems to have actually started as spreadsheets to keep track of resources rather than as a way to record language or express ideas.

The administrators of that extremely early city had to keep track of lots of things, and doing this by memory alone was a nightmare. These spreadsheets were devised as a solution to that as an evolution of an earlier system that used clay tokens and balls.

Spreadsheets are older than written language as we currently understand it.