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JumpCrisscross
on July 15, 2023
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Could an industrial civilization have predated hum...
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surely it is much more unlikely that animal bones would last for a hundred millennia
Why? The Cambridge paper gives a scientist’s reasons for that
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being the case being supposition.
cubefox
on July 16, 2023
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Because processed stones are much more massive than bones, which mostly rot away quite quickly.
rini17
on July 16, 2023
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Mass does not matter. Tungsten metal is heftier that the stone and it rots regardless.
cubefox
on July 16, 2023
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Let's say
durable
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Why? The Cambridge paper gives a scientist’s reasons for that not being the case being supposition.