WHY DID IT TAKE SO LONG TO INVENT ROPE?
WHY DID IT TAKE SO LONG TO INVENT ROPE? Katja Grace posed a great question here on her Meteuphoric blog (December 28, 2017): “One of the biggest intuitive mysteries to me is how humanity took so long to do anything. Humans have been ‘behaviorally modern’ for about 50 thousand years. And apparently didn’t invent, for instance: rope until 28 thousand years ago [and] the wheel until at least 4000BC….”