Comment on Anon thinks about wheat

psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• lb_o@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you think about it then boiling is not that easy.

  There is almost no way to boil something until you discover pottery and ceramic, and this is quite advanced tech for many early civilizations.

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  • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The Haida on the west coast of Canada put red hot rocks in their canoes to render fish. You underestimate humans ingenuity.

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      you don’t even need a canoe, just something that’s vaguely water resistant that you can line a pit in the ground with.

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    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Humans are very clever. Sometimes I feel very clever because I have learned so many cool facts and skills with the internet, and then I think about all the knowledge I hold that people of the past managed to figure out from scratch, and it blows my mind

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