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[โ€“] 10 points 1 year ago

It's very niche, but the only thing I could come up with is Kvevri, a traditional Georgian winemaking vessel. They're sold today (and still used for their stated purpose, aging wine), I've personally seen kvevris with the exact same shape buried in a wine cellar of 12th century monastery, and at least going by the article they're like 8000 years old, and haven't changed much in that time.

My other ideas were:

  • Bricks (turns out the earliest sun-dried mudbricks, which are very different from modern ones)
  • Concrete (turns out it changed a whole lot since the Romans, modern concrete is much easier to pour, sets faster and is much stronger)
  • Nuts & bolts (initially were hand-crafted and non-interchangeable - yuck!)
  • Knives (I'll let knife enthusiasts speak about that one)
  • source