neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now
Jan 17, 2026 14:52We would be appropriately labeled the Monster Energy Drink Culture
"the Beaker People? We laid waste to a hundred villages and you call us the fucking Beaker People???"
Look bud, everyone was laying waste to villages back then. You guys are the only ones that made these beakers, though.
There's something deeply humbling and poetic that a culture is inevitably primarily known by the type of trash it left behind
