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minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·19 days agoOnly recently! For the past 10,000 years a 70-year span would not see a single significant change. (If I mix this up, someone correct me.) I think it was at Olduvai, or somewhere in the Great Rift Valley, that hominids spent 600,000 years hammering out the same exact stone tools.
minus-squaremerde alors@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·18 days agothat’s why i put “technology” in quotation marks.
Only recently! For the past 10,000 years a 70-year span would not see a single significant change.
(If I mix this up, someone correct me.)
I think it was at Olduvai, or somewhere in the Great Rift Valley, that hominids spent 600,000 years hammering out the same exact stone tools.
that’s why i put “technology” in quotation marks.