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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Possible Ritual Use™ 😸

Love these, though I'll never remember the name or how to write it ...

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[–] [email protected] 105 points 6 months ago (8 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

First and foremost: knitting wasn’t invented until centuries later and didn’t appear in Europe until about the 14th century.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

To me it looks like something you'd use to easily make a Monkey Fist for throwing line to/from a pier. Though I guess that doesn't make much sense appearing in mountainous regions, unless they were made in the mountains (proximity to ore?)

[–] [email protected] 142 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 87 points 6 months ago (8 children)

I think I also read these were usually found with treasures and with minimal or no wear, so there isn’t any evidence they were used for anything.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Grandma's are the best

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Grandma is are indeed

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

Grandma has are the best, surely.

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