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[โ€“] PugJesus@piefed.social 50 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Couldn't find anything to validate this specific claim of archeologists claiming obsidian blades were kept close to the sun (under a roof???) to keep them sharp, but you see things like this pop up from time to time, wherein specialists or people from the region point out that a poorly-understood archeological find is just a specialist tool or regional practice that's still in use.

[โ€“] stray@pawb.social 3 points 2 months ago

It's interesting because I would expect the opposite to be true, that archeologists would struggle to find a practical reason for everything when sometimes the people in question just thought the thing was neat.