When stone tools were considered lightning remnants – and weapons of the gods
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Neolithic stone axes were known as thunderstones and thought to have magical powers
  • ConfusedPossum@kbin.social
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    6 months ago

    Kurzgesagt did this video where they crammed all of Earth’s history in an hour. Basically you look at a barren wasteland for most of the time until life finally goes macroscopic and then all of humanity happens in less than a second

    I sat through the whole thing and it’s still incomprehensible

    • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      It’s gotten so fast that we now see significant changes in our lifetimes - cultural, technology, climate. For most of human history, it took many generations for any real change to occur.

      Japan might be the record holder for fastest significant change, though. Feudalism to a modern industrial economy in a few decades.