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From the Vault: The Invention of the Spoon, Part 1

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The Early Evidence for Snors in the Archaeological Record

The discovery of feeding spoons is highly significant archaeologist and science writer christina killgrove's blog. In the neolithic era there came a series of dramatic transformations for human culture thanks to animal domestication. A shift towards high calory population structure, reduction in cereal foods and reduced time mothers breast fed their babies led to an incredibly rapid population growth. And i think that thereis sometimes not enough attention paid to domestic life during this area of pre-history which has often been understudied by archaeologists.

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