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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:25am on 2005-10-15 under

"I'd love to know what an archaeologist from Betelgeuse would make of the Rubik's cube 2000 years from now, for instance, but there are probably things sitting in our museums labelled 'ritual object(?)' and 'fertility totem' which should more properly be labelled 'passing fad' and 'marketing stunt that backfired'." -- [livejournal.com profile] ajhalluk, 2005-06-05

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posted by [identity profile] griffen.livejournal.com at 09:36am on 2005-10-15
*laugh* I'll have to share that with my World Systems instructor. He'll get a kick out of it.
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posted by [identity profile] an1840sgirl.livejournal.com at 09:52am on 2005-10-15
LMAO
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posted by [identity profile] keith-m043.livejournal.com at 11:24am on 2005-10-15
I think fertility totems depend on what tribe you belong to. I know a tribe for which the 'Nipper' dog is a fertility totem.
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posted by [identity profile] anniemal.livejournal.com at 01:59pm on 2005-10-15
But how much time did hunter-gatherers or even more recent farmers have for things like Rubik's cubes and jigsaw puzzles? Grown-ups didn't have much time or energy for pursuits not directly involved with survival, did they? Not enough media to have marketing. Passing fads would probably have remained within a tribe. Ritual object(?)s might have been a daydreaming potter's cast-asides. Don't know enough to say.

I don't doubt we will baffle future archaelogists.
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posted by [personal profile] zenlizard at 02:33pm on 2005-10-15
What we need to do is get a group together to spend a weekend making a whole bunch of "fetishes" just to leave lying around the country.
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posted by [identity profile] jmax315.livejournal.com at 03:58pm on 2005-10-15
Actually, the best information available is that hunter-gatherers spend *less* time than any subsequent people in daily food gathering; the advantage of agriculture is that you can support more people, not that it's less work.
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posted by [personal profile] cellio at 02:53am on 2005-10-16
*laugh*

You've read Motel of the Mysteries and "Report on the Weans" (I think that was the title), right?
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