Specialized Skills for Ancient Business
In the founding eras of civilization, communities came together around agriculture. Once they had a consistent established food source, they had the opportunity to have hobbies and find their skills and talents. These hobbies… such as beadwork, pottery and weapons specialization came into opportunities to trade.
I should add that hunter gatherer societies do have these little trade developing hobbies, but the mobility of their lifestyle leaves less for archaeologists to find and the fragments that are found, archaeologists are only guessing at the context. Rock art is a good example of this… we only have the drawings and experts are guessing at what they mean.
On cultures that leave a lot of material behind there have been numerous moments where scholars have found things and tried to guess what they were for, only to have someone who still works in that ancient field go… “Yeah. This is the modern version.”
For instance ancient sippy cups:
These let mom have a break and get some things done. When archaeologists studied them they found the contents were cows milk, so that suggests a farming community with domesticated cows who were being milked.
Milk is great protein source and cattle could also be used as a food, shelter or clothing source. They helped with farming by breaking up the soil so families could plant more crops. More crops hopefully meant more food, which led to life improvements for everyone.
Business should ultimately be about resource improvement and specialization of skills, so that you can work on what you’re talented in. And with the internet being able to connect us all, I would venture to suggest that we’re back in an era of resource improvement and specialization, where we can all spend a little bit of time working on what we’re talented in. It may not always earn us money - but someone will find it helpful.
Here’s the full article: It does mention graves and human remains. (No images, just mentions.) https://www.livescience.com/ancient-sippy-cups.html
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