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a series of stone weights shaped in oblongs. the photo shows the side view and the end view. the types and sizes of stone are different but they are clearly part of the same measuring system

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a series of stone weights shaped in oblongs. the photo shows the side view and the end view. the types and sizes of stone are different but they are clearly part of the same measuring system
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wicker boyfriend (checkervest@laserdisc.party)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 09:56:16 JST wicker boyfriend

Did several big tasks so it's frog weights time as a reward! The Bronze Age Mesopotamians created a standard weight system for trade going from really small weights to larger ones. This weight standard lasted for at least 3000 years across huge chunks of the globe. Standard ones looked like this:

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