Minds create things, but things also create minds. - Deepstash
Minds create things, but things also create minds.

Minds create things, but things also create minds.

Composite tools that imply the inherent process of joining together must have reinforced collaboration, crucial for hunting and social networks.

Birch tar suggests interesting ideas: to comprehend that bark would transform to sticky, pungent black liquid means grasping that matter could transmute. Rather than being destroyed by fire, it would be remade.

As tar was cooked, cooled and solidified, then was reheated and softened once again, so cycles of change were witnessed and understood.

They combined convention with adaptability. They invented ways to take things apart and join them together. 

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