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Cleaning out a century-old farmhouse and stumbling upon a box of arrowheads
I was cleaning out a century-old farmhouse for a client last week. In the attic, under some dusty blankets, I found a wooden box full of arrowheads. They were shaped from flint and had sharp edges, clearly worked by hand. Holding them, I thought about how people back then built everything from scratch, just to survive. Today, we have so much stuff that comes from factories and gets tossed out quick. It's wild to think how different life is now compared to when those arrowheads were used. I bet archaeologists find things like this all the time and piece together how people lived. What do you guys think future diggers will say about how we live today?
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quinna897mo ago
Future trash tells our story. Piperbailey is right about the throwaway culture. They'll dig up mountains of plastic junk and broken electronics. It's crazy that an arrowhead lasts longer than a phone made today. What do we make now that will actually last?
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kai4457mo ago
Our landfills will be the saddest history books ever written.
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piperbailey7mo ago
Finding arrowheads like that is a neat connection to the past. People back then made what they needed with their hands. Now, we have cheap things that break fast. Archaeologists in the future will dig up landfills full of our trash. They'll see how we lived in a throwaway culture.
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