Created | Updated Jan 11, 2015
Everything worth doing was done in your lifetime, right? Just how old are you, Methuselah?
Ah, invention. Ah, technology. A feature of modern times.
Not so fast: some of these inventions are truly ancient.
Match the invention to the time of its first appearance – at least, as far as the archaeologists can tell.
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