TIL Many bronze age peoples forgot what stone age tools were, and thought discovered ones as some kind of mystical talismans or signs from a thunder god

@[email protected] · 8 months ago

TIL Many bronze age peoples forgot what stone age tools were, and thought discovered ones as some kind of mystical talismans or signs from a thunder god

@samus12345 · 8 months ago

It’s gotten so fast that we now see significant changes in our lifetimes - cultural, technology, climate. For most of human history, it took many generations for any real change to occur.

Japan might be the record holder for fastest significant change, though. Feudalism to a modern industrial economy in a few decades.

@[email protected] · 8 months ago

Please. The USSR industrialization speed run is unsurpassed. Peasants to the first artificial satellite in 40 years. Also, parts of Russia are still completely undeveloped today!

@[email protected] · 8 months ago

Japan did it twice. They closed their borders between bouts of rapid modernizations.

TIL Many bronze age peoples forgot what stone age tools were, and thought discovered ones as some kind of mystical talismans or signs from a thunder god

TIL Many bronze age peoples forgot what stone age tools were, and thought discovered ones as some kind of mystical talismans or signs from a thunder god

When stone tools were considered lightning remnants – and weapons of the gods