BOLIVIA
I have noticed
that there was something of a worldwide neolithic culture. From Africa
to Siberia to the Americas a polished stone industry made products that
look more or less the same. The fact that they stopped making them
in the parts of the "Old World" a couple of thousand years before they
did in the Americas is interesting but there are American specimens as
old as the oldest Old World pieces, so we're looking at industrial stasis
"here" versus development "there." At one point, in some ways, we
were once "all one."
BAX1)
BOLIVIA, c. 200 BC - 20th c.?, basalt axe, 57x52x18mm,
"fish" shaped, ground & polished, guy said it came from "Carabe," but
I couldn't find such a place, nice $75.00
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