12,000-year-old sequins hint at a shared culture in Indonesian islands
The more we discover about the past the more weird it all is and to me makes less sense overall. People have lived very similar to our societies today, for thousands and thousands of years. Some had plumbing. Some built pyramids. Some did complex math and science. Some made gunpowder and explosives and had rockets. Yet for thousands and thousands of years, nothing was really happening and then within the last 250ish years we went from electric becoming a thing, to super computers in our watches and robots in space. The part that doesn’t make sense is why that didn’t get kicked off thousands of years ago when there wasn’t much of a difference in terms of advancement. Why’d it explode one day almost like we got a helping hand? Shouldn’t we be 1000 years more advanced now than we currently are, because these things could have just as easily been kicked off then?<p>I am not at all able to say I know enough history to know if I’m way off base to ask that question. I must be glossing over some significant reasons that couldn’t have happened. It’s just weird to me.<p>A quote from Mad Men that helps demonstrate the sharp hockey stick of progress.<p>“She was born in 1898 in a barn. She died on the 37th floor of a skyscraper. She was an astronaut.”