Are you laughing at me? I still have one in the bedroom.
Press one for.......click....works every time.
That video should be shown to all students and teachers or Archeology as a lesson in what they find and how they interpret the findings.
Flea markets in the north east are an example of this. People clean out homes and barn of stuff that their GG grand parents stored and have no idea of the use of some things in its day.
Mother found an old box in the attic that had belonged to some sailor that visited China in the 1800's. Inside she came across 6 bone carvings that were like a cage. Beautiful intricate carvings and light as a feather.
What the heck were these used for in china, she marched around for 10 years asking everyone from the Curators of museums to those who specialised in Chinese artifacts. She even sent pictures of the things off to the Peabody Museum and no one had the slightest idea what they were, ornaments most said.
So she gave up and one day she visited her local liberty that was selling off all the old periodicals and found one from the 1950's on China and its traditions. Low and behold there was a picture of her ornaments.
Those so called ornaments were in fact implements to wear on ones clothing as FLEA Traps. One put a bit of honey in the trap and the fleas would run in and could not get out. Sort of like an ancient roach motel--or the Hotel California, one could check in but not check out.
Today my kids have no idea of what a button hook, a darning ball for socks, or the implements used to forge horse shoes were used for. They come across a round metal object with a grove in one side and don't connect it to the old wood fired stoves. The hook that removed the plate to add more wood is also a what the heck is that for.
How I ask can the learned folks that go on digs into the past even 500 years understand what they find, like the children in the video, one has to know and have lived in the past to understand what they find.
How does one do this when they cannot recognise or been anywhere near the culture they are exploring.
Put it this way, we find medical kits from the early 1900 and few have any idea what the implements inside were used for.
