Sorry Pug, I have to down vote for the awful and distracting censorship. I know you likely aren't the one who did it, but damn is it hard to read because of it.
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S'alright, I get it. If I'm too lazy to hunt down the original (and I absolutely am too lazy), I deserve the downvote.
Well now I feel bad. At the very least it was a good find.
Nah, don't feel bad, I got no shame about being lazy.
Like to see some quality accountability around here, refreshing honestly.
I find the censoring so distracting that if this weren't so interesting I would've never been able to keep reading
Thank you, I was just about to comment the same. Was this posted for toddlers? Is there not enough censorship already? Are we self-censoring now?
Picture will have been screen-grabbed from a site that doesn't allow swears. What would the internet be, if it wasn't just screenshots of the same four sites, shared between them?
"A picture of text" is less accessible than "text as text" - harder for a screen-reader to convert it to audio, or to automatically translate it. Bit of a flaw of lemmy to only show the first paragraph-or-so of a text-only article, which means picture posts will keep turning up.
For the sake of transparency: fucking, fuck, fucked, shit.
You can't just fucking swear on this good Christian comm
We're not christian yet! We're barely out of the Julian era!
With the leatherworking example this article below provides details and source. Except for the asking a leatherworker bit which seems inaccurate. The scientists actually made new experimental copies of the tools to confirm what the bones were used for based on the wear to surfaces. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/aug/12/neanderthals-invented-tool-leather-lissoir. They did note that "Similar tools, called slickers or burnishers, are still in use by leather workers today, meaning the instruments may be the only known examples of modern tools that owe their existence to our ancient Neanderthal relatives.
"There's a good case to be made for Neanderthals inventing this one aspect of modern human technology," said Shannon McPherron at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. "It's the first time we've seen Neanderthals use bone in a way that uses its unique properties."
"These bone tools are identical in outline, profile, and use-wear to lissoirs. Lissoirs are known from the early Upper Paleolithic of western Europe including the Châtelperronian, Proto-Aurignacian and Aurignacian but are also found in the late Upper Paleolithic through to historic and modern time periods Lissoirs have a standardized shape and vary in size depending on the species used; they are an effective tool for producing and smoothly shifting pressure over a small area"
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We still don't know what those knobby holed dodecahedrons are for
Butt stuff.
Send this to the guys outfitting units with the M7
Trying to tell whoever is in charge of procurement in the US military "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"?
A Herculean task!