It's kind of humbling to realize that there is just so much more human history than the modern era.
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"Neal Stephenson jumps 5,000 years ahead in his narrative? Why such a short interval?!" :)
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The lack of early human fiction is something I’m bummed about. Shaman was interesting but there are a bunch of stone and copper age areas I’d love stories set in. Someone give me a novel about the first horse riders, dammit.
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That's the one where they're capturing colts, to keep them around for food, and some kid says "I bet I can ride that"
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Interesting observation. I don’t do that - I am often stuck by the age of artifacts themselves. I do think, though, that my appreciation of the makers is subsumed within my appreciation of the object, just implicitly rather than explicitly.
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I am the same way. Most of my appreciation is for the fact that something so ephemeral - and most things are ephemeral over thirty thousand years - survived and we can reach out and pick it up and the person who found it may be the first human to touch it in thirty millenia.
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very good tweet
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That's actually a really good depiction, too.
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