March
28
/ 2013
Of course there was no internet back then … but the intrinsic need of humans for socializing was active back in 13 th Century in different forms. After studying ceramic and obsidian artefacts from that Era, researchers have discovered that long distance social network existed long before the Internet. And the means they used for socializing was their feet. The study was based on analysing more than 800,000 painted ceramics and 4,800 obsidian artefacts. They have found that similar types of painted pottery were created in villages separated by more than 250 km, which suggests that relationships were maintained spanning large distances. And if you take into account that there were no means of transportation, this required a lot of
