• skillissuer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The reason vast majority of cultures has 7 day week is that lunar month has 28 days, so that it can be neatly divided into four seven day weeks. It was important for timekeeping and because hunter-gatherers could forage more easily during full moon nights

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      1 year ago

      My gamer brain read “frag” instead of “forage”. Now I imagine primitive Quake players bunnyhopping through the forest on full moon nights to hunt for food. Help.

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        1 year ago

        i mean this is not a massive stretch. i heard an account of (ww2?) soldiers using mortar for fishing: one team would shell river, and another team would collect stunned/dead fish safe distance downstream. sometimes civilians got too close but they weren’t particularly concerned about it