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John (bird whisperer)
Women invented all the core technologies that made civilization possible. This isn’t some feminist myth; it’s what modern anthropologists believe. Women are thought to have invented pottery, basketmaking, weaving, textiles, horticulture, and agriculture. That’s right: without women’s inventions, we wouldn’t be able to carry things or store things... - http://dendroica.tumblr.com/post...
November 20
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Greg GuitarBuster, Steven Perez, Kelli H. and 11 other people liked this
this is why I have a tattoo on my head! I should send folks to this post next time they ask.
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You have a tattoo on your head?
- John (bird whisperer)
Ha! yes, sir. and I'm hearing that question with the inflection I often get: "you have a TATTOO? on your HEAD?" with raised eyebrows. it's a pottery motif of the Zuni, the first example found with the lines filled in on the North American continent. To me it represents this cognitive shift in the moment a woman painting pottery realized she could define space by coloring inside the lined patterns they'd been doing for centuries before that. I wanted that inspiration as close to my brain as I could get it.
- t-ra: not givin up
Oh, I wasn't asking with a dumbfounded inflection. :-D I just didn't know you had one there. And the pottery pattern sounds cool.
- John (bird whisperer)