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Anon is an anthropologist (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] ThrowawayPermanente 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yep. For most of human history technological progress amounted to getting a little bit better at smashing slightly sharper rocks over the course of hundreds of years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

This is probably incorrect. Rocks preserve in the archaeological record so that's what we have the most evidence for.

Increasingly sophisticated knowledge of woodworking, textile science, plant and animal biology, mathematics and astronomy were no doubt developing alongside knapping techniques, that stuff just doesn't preserve well.