Posted on 07/16/2020 8:03:41 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Persons residing on the Israeli coastline 120,000 many years in the past strung ocher-painted seashells on flax string, in accordance to a recent examine in which archaeologists examined microscopic traces of have on inside of by natural means developing holes in the shells. That may well lose some light on when folks very first invented string -- which hints at the invention of points like clothes, fishing nets, and perhaps even seafaring...
Shell collectors at Misliya appeared to like primarily intact shells, and there is no signal that they embellished or modified their finds. But 40,000 years later on and 40km (25 miles) away, persons at Qafzeh Cave appeared to prefer gathering clam shells with little holes in the vicinity of their tops. The holes ended up purely natural destruction from scraping together the seafloor, but people utilised them to string the shells with each other to make jewellery or decorations. Tel-Aviv College archaeologist Daniella Bar-Yosef Mayer and her colleagues examined five shells from Qafzeh and observed microscopic striations around the edges of the holes -- marks that counsel the shells as soon as hung on a string.
...Dress in marks about the holes counsel hanging on a string, and other use marks on the edges of the shells propose that the shells rubbed towards each other, so they almost certainly hung near collectively. And 4 of the shells still carried traces of red ocher pigment. The only thing missing is also the most intriguing piece: the string...
The tiny marks still left driving by a flax string rubbing towards the edges of the hole looked just like the marks on the Qafzeh shells. Even nevertheless the string itself did not endure, the wear marks on the shells expose its presence.
(Excerpt) Read more at insidewalessport.co.uk ...
Wow, even I'm not that out of fashion!
Apparently, String Theory is even older than Michio Kaku...
They say fashion trends repeat. So hold onto those old sea shells!
I was always under the impression those holes in seashells were made by hungry snails.
Our ancestors were creative and inventive, but it took them 100s of 1000s of years to come out of their shells.
Shouldn’t this be under ‘String Theory’?..................
*ouch*
Bivalves such as these shells are the prey of carnivorous snails. These snails have a tooth-studded tongue called a radula, which the snail uses as a drill to gain access to the tender parts inside. The radula is used to scrape and scrape, leaving a round hole. If you’ve ever picked up shells on the beach featuring neat round holes, you can figure out how that clam died-—clamicide. While reading this article, the first thing I thought was that someone collected shells with pre-drilled holes to string them from, courtesy of a predatory snail.
I'm knot sure.
So what was the first collectible?
String or shells?
Probably Helen Thomas bobbleheads.
Everything comes back into fashion sooner or later. Hold on to those miniskirts! ;-)
Wow, that is some strange stuff.
Among other courses, I used to teach marine biology in high school. It was my favorite course to teach, as it involved some earth science, zoology, chemistry, and environmental science. Then, courses like that were cancelled, replaced by the dumbed down "Living Environment", the libtard version of biology. They didn't cover bones, muscles, eyes, skin, the structure of the ear, etc.
I had obtained a big cow femur bone split the long way by my butcher, boiled it and let it dry out. You could see the interior spikes of bone (spicules) criss crossing within. That made a really great lesson on nature's architecture, with its economy of materials yet great strength. I had followed up that lesson with having the kids test the strength of cylinders vs. square hollow columns, having them pile books on top to see which was stronger, and then looking at acrylic hollow cylinders and square hollow cylinder through a polarizing filter so they could see the stress lines from the corners of the square cylinder. This was the answer to the question I posed at the beginning of the activity: why are the long bones of large animals round, not square? The kids did their tests and could then answer the question for themselves. I then had a follow up lesson about how man uses the principles of nature's architecture---different kinds of bridges use the principles of the spine opposed by the strength of abdominal muscles, submarines are modeled on sharks, including their steering pectoral fins, etc.
In those days, kids were very involved in their lessons when I had a lot of hands-on activities I designed. Then along came the libtards/politicians poking their nose where it didn't belong, dictating that we should follow untested "progressive" curricula. The "new" version of biology only covered DNA technology, ecology, and a smattering of human biology such as circulatory systems, etc. Gone were the wonders of the body such as I mentioned above. Gone were the interesting labs, replaced by paper labs. Gone was the intense teaching, replaced by dividing the class into groups of 4 and handing them out handouts with a few paragraphs and some questions they had to answer (COMMIE CORE).
In addition to the grotesque version of "biology" we were then forced to teach, we then were forced to apply a ferocious grading curve to the state exams ("Regents exams"), so you only had to answer about 36 of 72 questions to pass. It was nauseating. Then they started harassing the veteran teachers to force them out, so they could replace them with 2 newbies for the same price, newbies who were thrilled to name all the new acronyms rapid-fire and utilize the intellectually bereft Commie Core.
I was so blessed to have enough years in to retire and get away from the horror movie teaching in NYC schools had become, the fraud committed, all the interesting stuff vacuumed out of the new way to "teach". No wonder they are turning out hordes of illiterates who can't add 3 + 5 without a calculator, who cannot tell the time from an analog clock, who cannot read cursive writing. The loss of such knowledge and its ramifications will be quite destructive to society. I think it already is.
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