Re: retrograde technologies?

From: Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun May 30 1999 - 08:13:12 MDT


I wrote:

>Tasmanian aborigines lost fish hooks and perhaps (I can't swear to this)
even fire

But they had fire-sticks, according to one source, so that last bit's
plainly wrong. But they certainly did lose a vast amount of what was then
(so to speak) cutting edge technology.

Damien Broderick



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