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These Intricately Decorated Ostrich Eggshells Suggest Our Ancestors May Have Understood Basic Geometry 60,000 Years Ago

The lines, right angles and other mysterious designs required careful planning and robust cognitive abilities, according to a new study

by Sarah Kuta

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-intricately-decorated-ostrich-eggshells-suggest-our-ancestors-may-have-understood-basic-geometry-60000-years-ago-180988315/

Original article here:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0338509

Geometry at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=geometry

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Mar 10 at 10:04amWeb
Show threadPetra van CronenburgMar 10

@gutenberg_org And 60,000 years later, homo sapiens is astonished how bees communicate places by dancing geometry, and beetles use stars and angles for orientation at night ...

#NatureMatchCuts #geometry #archaeology

Show threadAndrocatMar 10
@gutenberg_org "The virgin mary doling out platonic forms"
Show threadCassandrichMar 10
@gutenberg_org I suspect this is just bad reporting by someone who doesn't understand the research, but "They used geometric and statistical analysis to reconstruct the markings in detail." suggests any findings would be artifacts of that reconstruction process not something that was actually there.
Show threadProject GutenbergMar 10
@dalias that’s why we added the original article as well