Hella unlikely they were used to knit gloves

  • @Barbarian
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    375 months ago

    The default bucket that archeologists throw stuff into if they really don’t know is “religious object”.

    • @[email protected]
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      Oftentimes, that’s a sort of inside joke. If it’s even remotely probe-shaped, they assume it was used for sex. But since that doesn’t look nice on academic papers, they’ll use “ritual” as a euphemism.

      Seriously, archeologists find a lot of ancient dildos.

      • BarqsHasBite
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        5 months ago

        Maybe 50 years ago. Don’t think there’s as much holdup now.

        • @[email protected]
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          Gotta disagree, I bet they’re still finding great-great-great-[…]-grandmother’s dildos (or -grandfather’s, who knows?) and they hold up just fine, all things considered.