RE: Do you believe in behavioural modernity?
May 13, 2013 at 12:41 pm
(This post was last modified: May 13, 2013 at 12:47 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Similarly, replicating something so smooth as one of those spears isn't as easy as one might imagine..I did mention that I had dremels and calipers and a bench vise and still failed..initially, right? That was 5 years or so ago, I still make them (Im into atlatls and cho-ko-nu now......)but, I did start to use some of the "purpose built" tools we find at sites (assumedly purpose built, that is) and I can make a passable dart or spear.....I still have to use the modern gear to get something akin to the level of quality in the artifacts.
It really does take time, even if we reference ritualization - the ritual has to be memorized..and specifically if it's a ritual involving workmanship whatever part of the ritual is not directly related to production simply becomes and added obstacle (additional to the production of the object-that's laying aside that just because something becomes ritualized that doesn't mean the ritual makes it any easier, one is left to wonder whether or not any ritual involved might have entailed infusing the item with the right kind of spirits..and whether or not the items that got the wrong kind of spirits were discrded...and whether or not this has any connection to the reality of the items operability as a tool - or if it was just some asshole hopped up on mushrooms sprinkling dust and shitcanning industry at random). Really, really put yourself in these peoples place. You know that douche boss you had that never seemed to do anything but hinder your ability to get anything done? Any reason to assume that this guy didn't exist then?
It really does take time, even if we reference ritualization - the ritual has to be memorized..and specifically if it's a ritual involving workmanship whatever part of the ritual is not directly related to production simply becomes and added obstacle (additional to the production of the object-that's laying aside that just because something becomes ritualized that doesn't mean the ritual makes it any easier, one is left to wonder whether or not any ritual involved might have entailed infusing the item with the right kind of spirits..and whether or not the items that got the wrong kind of spirits were discrded...and whether or not this has any connection to the reality of the items operability as a tool - or if it was just some asshole hopped up on mushrooms sprinkling dust and shitcanning industry at random). Really, really put yourself in these peoples place. You know that douche boss you had that never seemed to do anything but hinder your ability to get anything done? Any reason to assume that this guy didn't exist then?
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