https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/06/these-ancient-weights-helped-create-europe-s-first-free-market-more-3000-years-ago
Museum collection mining finds standard weights: To their surprise, more than 2000 such objects crafted over the course of > 2000 years and an area spanning nearly 5000 kilometers weighed nearly the > same amount <https://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.2105873118>—between > 8 and 10.5 grams from Great Britain to Mesopotamia. Over the time spans > involved, the consistency was remarkable, they report today in the Proceedings > of the National Academy of Sciences. “It is like we were still using the > Roman systems of measurement [today], with just some minor variations,” > Ialongo says. roughly a generous dime bag of weed in the jersey suburbs of the 1960's. via hackernews -- rec --
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