I mean when I was young and used to play with rocks I had a favourite rock, I mean even painting rocks was a thing. No need to go thousands of years back lol
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Look at this fella with no favourite rock
Ha, what a ...wait, do you think they also don't have a favourite stick?!?
There was definitely a time when nobody pretended their favorite stick was a gun.
Or a favourite cave?
I have a jar of rocks and two sticks. That guy doesn't know how to human.
I have a favourite kitchen knife, so it's plausible
Still pretty common today.
This is lemmy. Everyone has a favourite rock.
They're fucking minerals Marie
Mine is cummingtonite
I can't pick a favorite.
They're all neat.
I thought I was weird after seeing that black stand-up on kill Tony saying he had some of his favorites in his pocket. My step mom and I went hiking and she found two really cool rocks, one was gray and has streaks of purple, the other one was dark but with orange streaks. They live on my dashboard.
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Wearing Jewels is the advanced form of carrying a pet rock.
We're not so different than the penguins that prostitute themselves for rocks
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Doing volunteer trail maintenance. All the people swarm the tool pile trying to claim their favorite pick mattock or grub hoe. It's adorable.
You're my favorite grub hoe.
😍
Paleontologists have found Neanderthal stone tools (knapped stone) made with high quality stone taken from kilometers away. This means that they had favorite tools that they wanted to keep with them, while other low quality stones where used few times before being discarded near their collection point
"Yo dude checkout my secret rock spot, it's 13 kilometers over there"
Even way back then, they already used the metric system!
It was the most natural thing to do
There's an area in the cascade range (western US, specifically oregon) that is a giant field of knapped obsidian, that was used as a training ground for young knappers, as well as a trading ground to trade knapped obsidian that has been found all over the western US. Not just miles, but many many miles. I'll see if I can go find a link.
Wasn't that long ago that people even had pet rocks.
Like I have a favorite spatula.
Was?
My favorite rock has a first name, it's H-O-M-E-R. My favorite rock has a second name, it's H-O-M-E-R.
You don't have a favorite Rock?
It's a mineral, Gurk.
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