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Doctor_Impossible_ t1_j9oqfes wrote

Reply to comment by GOLDIEM_J in Weekly History Questions Thread. by AutoModerator

Not directly. I think there might have been many intangible benefits, and certainly it may have interfered with and complicated the economies of rivals, and certainly had knock-on effects on their trade, but it's not like there was an abolition betting pool the British Empire was making big money on; abolition efforts were costly and time-consuming.

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AnaphoricReference t1_j9oj44t wrote

Reply to Homo sapiens may have brought archery to Europe about 54,000 years ago by Yazan_Research

Although stone (or bone) arrowheads are considered positive proof of archery, and we can't make any inferences from the absence of evidence, you don't actually need a hard point for bowhunting. To kill a rabbit or a bird just the impact of a blunt wooden arrow will suffice, and making those is a lot less work.

So these arrowheads are evidence of relatively big game or humans as archery targets IMO.

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The_Cysko_Kid t1_j9ofjmj wrote

Reply to The First Fossil Finders in North America Were Enslaved and Indigenous People by nemo_to_zero

So...smithsonian mag can't identify who these enslaved people were, who they were enslaved by, or what they were actually doing but they can say wirh absolute certainty they dug up a mammoth tooth and were able to correctly identify it, and that their place of origin was in the congo.

Sounds like a cool story with, you know, quite a bit of creative license.

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