we can’t really declare what the first utensils were based on current archeological evidence because the first utensils were likely made of materials that are long gone by now, for the most part.
lots of anthropologist are of the position that chopsticks likely predate spoons and forks, for generally the reasoning given in the original comment you’re replying to here. we can only really conjecture, though. maybe one day we’ll magically have enough dots to see the forest for the trees and be able to be relatively certain about it. having more data points than just human civilization would be a start, for one.
utensils are like language in of that they are an expression of our culture, so we don’t even know how many individual times across the globe utensils might have been invented, either.
that second to last bit is particularly relevant.
we can’t really declare what the first utensils were based on current archeological evidence because the first utensils were likely made of materials that are long gone by now, for the most part.
lots of anthropologist are of the position that chopsticks likely predate spoons and forks, for generally the reasoning given in the original comment you’re replying to here. we can only really conjecture, though. maybe one day we’ll magically have enough dots to see the forest for the trees and be able to be relatively certain about it. having more data points than just human civilization would be a start, for one.
utensils are like language in of that they are an expression of our culture, so we don’t even know how many individual times across the globe utensils might have been invented, either.