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Life-size camel sculptures in Saudi Arabia are older than Stonehenge, pyramids

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Re: Life-size camel sculptures in Saudi Arabia are older than Stonehenge, pyramids

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Post by Grustaf »

anderson1993 wrote: post #10

NYC should contact a Rat Terrier Club in the area. I believe only a couple of these dogs were bought by and ' employed' by those in charge of the stores of grain in Egypt. ( They had reached the maximum amount of 'poison' that they had been using on the grain.) Within days, they had it cleared out of rats. As the terriers spent their off time with their handlers and families, very soon those neighborhoods were also d…

Very few "White Americans" alive today have ravaged any American Indian sites.

Even if you have the deranged notion that people should bear the responsibility for what their ancestors did hundreds of years ago, it's still just tiny fraction of current Americans that should be the target of your anger.

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Post by Majestic121 »

anderson1993 wrote: post #10

NYC should contact a Rat Terrier Club in the area. I believe only a couple of these dogs were bought by and ' employed' by those in charge of the stores of grain in Egypt. ( They had reached the maximum amount of 'poison' that they had been using on the grain.) Within days, they had it cleared out of rats. As the terriers spent their off time with their handlers and families, very soon those neighborhoods were also d…

Did you intend to comment on another thread ? The article is about sculptures in Saudi Arabia, that are already protected, it's unrelated to the US

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Post by Grustaf »

Majestic121 wrote: post #12
anderson1993 wrote: post #10

NYC should contact a Rat Terrier Club in the area. I believe only a couple of these dogs were bought by and ' employed' by those in charge of the stores of grain in Egypt. ( They had reached the maximum amount of 'poison' that they had been using on the grain.) Within days, they had it cleared out of rats. As the terriers spent their off time with their handlers and families, very soon those neighborhoods were also d…

Did you intend to comment on another thread ? The article is about sculptures in Saudi Arabia, that are already protected, it's unrelated to the US

This used to be a comment about how all White Americans should protect Indian heritage. Which they of course should, but he also accused all White people of "ravaging" Indian sites etc.

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Post by tokai »

smoyer wrote: post #13

Imagine how much more creative we'd tend to be if we didn't have television and Internet distractions! What do you do after a long day of herding livestock? Take your chert, grab a drink and carve some camels!

Preposterous. Creativity has never been more unbounded and flourishing than it is now.

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Post by sudhirj »

smoyer wrote: post #13

Imagine how much more creative we'd tend to be if we didn't have television and Internet distractions! What do you do after a long day of herding livestock? Take your chert, grab a drink and carve some camels!

What exactly are we being distracted by on the internet and television? The flourishing unbridled creativity of millions of people like us, far more than ever before in history, no?

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Post by tgv »

sudhirj wrote: post #16
smoyer wrote: post #13

Imagine how much more creative we'd tend to be if we didn't have television and Internet distractions! What do you do after a long day of herding livestock? Take your chert, grab a drink and carve some camels!

What exactly are we being distracted by on the internet and television? The flourishing unbridled creativity of millions of people like us, far more than ever before in history, no?

The day archeologists declare they've excavated a meme that's "older than the tiktok", you'll be proven right.

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Post by afurculita »

BugWatch wrote: post #5

Once again, an article all about something visual with neigh a proper visualisation in it, let alone a photo of a greater scope, and no original design trace out proposal or recreation. Both of the provided examples essentially look like weather-exposed rocks.

Something like The Sphinx from Romania (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphinx_(Romania)). At a first look you'll say it is an ancient sculpture.

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Post by Razengan »

tokai wrote: post #15
smoyer wrote: post #13

Imagine how much more creative we'd tend to be if we didn't have television and Internet distractions! What do you do after a long day of herding livestock? Take your chert, grab a drink and carve some camels!

Preposterous. Creativity has never been more unbounded and flourishing than it is now.

“B-but it’s not the sort of creativity I like to see, so no creativity is happening.”
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