von Blattspitze » 13.05.2019 08:03
Perhaps real amber had become difficult to acquire due to increasing demand, they suggest, or perhaps the grave occupants weren’t actually as wealthy as they appear and had to opt for lower-cost lookalikes.
Or perhaps, they add, the imitation beads were “products used by middlemen to cheat the purchasers”.
Ist aber schon ein ganz wesentlicher Unterschied, ob es sich bloß um Imitationen oder aber um Betrug handelt.
"You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven." Yuval Noah Harari