- ringwraithfish ( @ringwraithfish@startrek.website ) English87•5 months ago
What a wonderful rabbit hole to go down. My takeaways are it could possibly be used for knitting, but traditional spool knitting that the Grandma uses in the video doesn’t show up in history until the 1500s. If the Romans did use it for gloves then knitting has been around much longer than we have evidence of or they were using a different method with the dodecahedron.
- FaceDeer ( @FaceDeer@fedia.io ) 56•5 months ago
Except that’s probably not what they’re for, I saw a video recently (I think it was this one) that went into detail about the reasons why it doesn’t make much sense for these to be a knitting tool.
- Rooskie91 ( @Rooskie91@discuss.online ) English36•5 months ago
There’s a lesson here about the differences between history and a good historical narrative, but that’s the lesson of most history and no one ever listens to it.
- gregorum ( @gregorum@lemm.ee ) English33•5 months ago
First and foremost: knitting wasn’t invented until centuries later and didn’t appear in Europe until about the 14th century.
- Lightfire228 ( @Lightfire228@pawb.social ) English4•5 months ago
Decoding the Unknown (also by Simon Whistler) did a video on these as well
- CarbonIceDragon ( @CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ) English19•5 months ago
Last time one of these threads popped up, I saw someone suggest that it might have been a holder for some of those bottles with pointed bottoms the Romans had, don’t remember the name. I’m not sure if this is a hypothesis with any level of acceptance, but it feels like it could be plausible just from looking at the thing, having different sized holes would allow different sizes of bottle to fit, and you’d want feet for each possible side that it could be resting on, which would explain the prongs.
- sabreW4K3 ( @sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al ) English18•5 months ago
Grandma’s are the best
- MonkderDritte ( @MonkderDritte@feddit.de ) English16•5 months ago
Future archeologist: What do you think they used those things for?
My point is, maybe it was just art, fun, deko?
- coaxil ( @coaxil@aussie.zone ) English8•5 months ago
Spinny boi
- Zozano ( @Zozano@aussie.zone ) English11•5 months ago
It’s a girth measurer.
- Klnsfw 🏳️🌈 ( @Klnsfw@lemmynsfw.com ) English5•5 months ago
Grandma knows how to use it.
- whereBeWaldo ( @whereBeWaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English7•5 months ago
You put fossils in them dude
- Generous1146 ( @Generous1146@beehaw.org ) English1•5 months ago
Dang it, someone thought of it already
- jlow (he/him) ( @jlow@beehaw.org ) English7•5 months ago
Possible Ritual Use™ 😸
Love these, though I’ll never remember the name or how to write it …
- Shareni ( @Shareni@programming.dev ) English3•5 months ago
Source: it was revealed to me in a dream
- stringere ( @stringere@leminal.space ) English5•5 months ago
- ns1 ( @ns1@feddit.uk ) English3•5 months ago
I just assumed it was one of these http://www.voting.ukscientists.com/penrose.html
- dumbass ( @dumbass@leminal.space ) English1•5 months ago
It’s just a papyrus weight