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etiennefd
·hace 11 meses·discuss
Yes, there are archeological remains of bread made from wild wheat and barley by hunter-gatherers in Jordan. It makes sense when you think about it, domestication would have happened only if the wild plant was useful, and if the plant was useful then it's likely people experimented with various ways of using it (like baking)
etiennefd
·hace 11 meses·discuss
Coming... soon...
etiennefd
·hace 11 meses·discuss
Such as?
etiennefd
·hace 11 meses·discuss
But they won't do it if they don't like this sort of approach! Which I think is wrong of them btw. But I don't think I've heard from historians much since this project went public.
etiennefd
·hace 11 meses·discuss
The links were mixed up (fixed now!) but I think the dates were correct; 3,500 BC is the date of the first leather shoe known, in Armenia.
etiennefd
·hace 11 meses·discuss
Whether a node is a terminus (or root without predecessors) is basically ~never meaningful in the tree, it's almost always just missing data. Here it seems pretty clear I omitted a link from Chinese writing to woodblock printing. Fixed!
etiennefd
·hace 11 meses·discuss
There is a "jump to nearest" button that appears if nothing is visible, but maybe it's too subtle? A hotkey would be a good idea too. I find that the best way to navigate is the minimap
etiennefd
·hace 11 meses·discuss
Seems valid, I updated the tree to date the screw-cutting lathe to 1800
etiennefd
·hace 3 años·discuss
I don't have enough expertise to have a strong opinion either way, but I know that Anton Howes thinks coal exploitation led to increased deforestation, not the other way around:

> It’s also wrong to say that Britain exploited coal and invented the steam engine because of deforestation. The evidence is overwhelmingly in favour of greater coal use being demand-led (eg from London growth) and cause of deforestation (will write more on this soon)

https://twitter.com/antonhowes/status/1542488372966465543