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Just a community for everyone to share artifacts, reconstructions, or replicas for the historically-inclined to admire!

Generally, an artifact should be 100+ years old, but this is a flexible requirement if you find something rare and suitably linked to an era of history, not a strict rule. Anything over 100 is fair game regardless of rarity.

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19th-century Inuit artifact from the Bering Sea region, crafted from walrus ivory to depict a polar bear carrying its cub. (lemmy.nz)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world to c/historyartifacts@piefed.social

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[–] solidsmoke@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Polar bear? Looks to me like they just carved some funny little guys. I'd hate for future archaeologists to find my highschool doodles and decide what animals I must have been depicting 🫪

[–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Lotsa unicorns way back then. Hung.

edit: meant "hunh", but I'm leaving it.

[–] deacon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Unicorns just have the same horn down there. It’s all one diagonally placed bone all the way through.

[–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

IIRC, horns are keratin and antlers are bone. ☝🏼

[–] deacon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Interesting. What else can you tell us about Unicorn physiology?

[–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Pretty horny from top to bottom, and all the switches between. 💁🏽‍♀️