Stone fish traps in use over the last 40,000 years located in the Barwon River that some believe are the earliest human construction in the world. It’s an example of a man made system that has endured for thousands of years and is still in use today—a model for how one might approach building new systems.
See also:
- 4th Industrial Revolution lecture from Genevieve Bell at The Long Now Foundation
- Inter-generational partnership
- Heirlooms foster long term thinking
- Time horizons as a competitive advantage
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Roman Concrete Was Self-Healing
Roman concrete used thousands of years ago is significantly more durable than modern concrete. One of the key differences is self-healing properties—when Roman concrete cracks, it reacts with water which quickly fills in the crack with calcium carbonate.
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Sistine Chapel of the Ancients
Thousands of Ice Age paintings were discovered in the Amazon rainforest in Colombia which earned the nickname ‘the Sistine Chapel of the ancients’. Researchers date the artwork in part because of the depictions of long extinct animals (including mammoths) and plants around the time of the Ice Age.