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[-] Hegar@fedia.io 26 points 1 month ago

Oh lol! That looks like a Western Stemmed point! That's the precursoriest projectile point to have chosen.

For ages the model of the Peopling of the Americas was Clovis First - that the people associated with the beautiful fluted Clovis Point tradition were the first through the ice-free corridor. But these Western Stemmed Points kept turning up very early in the PNW and they look like much older points from eastern eurasia. Clovis first was gospel though, so no-one was willing to accept the existence of a clovis precursor, even though these are what, when and where we'd expect a pre-Clovis stone tool tradition to look like.

Nowadays some kind of small pre-clovis presence is widely accepted. So these were quite controversially precursors.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the prehistory lesson! It was genuinely very interesting! 🫶🏼

[-] 64bithero@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

The more you know …

[-] Doug@piefed.social 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What’s a postcursor?

P.S. Fuck your

[-] griselbrandalf@reddthat.com 9 points 1 month ago

Shut up and take my upvote already. And you too, OOP!

[-] qualia@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

OP makes a good point.

[-] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 month ago

Idk, the joke might be a little too pointed.

[-] suff@piefed.social 9 points 1 month ago

What would the hourglass look like?

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

candle burning down? with nails or something in it that fall out into a metal plate to PING the time

[-] shroomato@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
[-] suff@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

World's oldest known sundial is 1500 BC

[-] shroomato@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Well in its basic form it's a literal stick in the ground, you aren't gonna get anything more ancient than that.

[-] suff@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

if you can't read the hours you could just look at the sky.

[-] shroomato@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I guess, but sun on its own doesn't really fit the definition of a tool

[-] peripheralneuropathy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
[-] suff@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

Most likely. Bit boring though.

[-] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 8 points 1 month ago

Icon not get it

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 6 points 1 month ago

And it was as easy to control as Point and Stick

[-] chattre@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago

literally just the Breeze cursor 😭

[-] Redjard@reddthat.com 3 points 1 month ago

Even more so the oxygen cursor, Especially the orange one

Breeze looking similar is not surprising since it's the next kde theme after oxygen.

[-] AFLYINTOASTER@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Looks like a chicken nugget

[-] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 4 points 1 month ago

Truly sidesplitting.

[-] yesman@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

That's a big deer, Tharg. We're going to have to double click it.

[-] 64bithero@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Drag and drop ?

[-] elephantium@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

It right-clicked for me

this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2026
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