The Most Ancient Technology of All


	The Most Ancient Technology of All

Rustee

4-2-2008 9:54 PM

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Rustee says:

Its function is to put reality in terms that make sense. That means dramatizing what we see -- transmuting it into something more than what's obvious.

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                <FONT size="+3">W</FONT>hat's the oldest
                technology? Farming came late in history. Before
                farming, settled herdsmen and gatherers made
                clothing, knives, tents, spears -- but so did
                nomads before them. Go back further: archaeology
                tells us that pictures and music were among
                stone-age technologies. Some really magnificent
                cave paintings survive, along with evidence of
                rattles, drums, pipes, and shell trumpets. Even the
                Bible -- the chronology of the Hebrew tribes --
                identifies musical-instrument-making as one of
                three technologies that arose in the 7th and 8th
                generations after Adam.
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                sophisticated. In almost any age, or any society,
                music-making is every bit as complex as other
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                Music is clearly as old as any technology we can
                date. Couple that with the sure knowledge that
                whales sing -- that the animal urge to make music
                precedes technology, and I offer music-making as my
                candidate for the oldest technology of all.
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