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August 8, 2012 01:29 pm PDT
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World's earliest known matchsticks
Small clay and stone artifacts found in Israel's Jordan Valley, long thought to be phallic symbols, may actually be 8,000-year-old matchsticks. Scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem used electro-microscopy to examine the objects, kept in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and found friction marks and possible burn marks suggesting that the cylinders had been [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/yCyrOBvNawo/worlds-earliest-known-matchs.html
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