RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
June 20, 2023 at 3:26 pm
(This post was last modified: June 20, 2023 at 3:27 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
From the ‘If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It File’:
In the 1980s, archaeologists unearth some Neanderthal tools made from polished rib bones, estimated to be about 50 000 years old. There was widespread disagreement about what exactly the tools were, until they showed one to a traditional leather worker. She took one look and said, ‘It’s a hide burnisher. You use it to close pores in the leather and work oil into to make it waterproof. Mine look exactly the same.’
Boru
In the 1980s, archaeologists unearth some Neanderthal tools made from polished rib bones, estimated to be about 50 000 years old. There was widespread disagreement about what exactly the tools were, until they showed one to a traditional leather worker. She took one look and said, ‘It’s a hide burnisher. You use it to close pores in the leather and work oil into to make it waterproof. Mine look exactly the same.’
Boru
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