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Generally, an artifact should be 100+ years old, but this is a flexible requirement if you find something rare and suitably linked to an era of history, not a strict rule. Anything over 100 is fair game regardless of rarity.

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Wooden firestarter, Egypt, 16th-11th century BCE (upload.wikimedia.org)

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[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Not what I said, nor intended to imply.

Bow drill invented much earlier in Egypt

I'm saying that in Egypt the bow drill was evidently invented much earlier. Not that Egypt was the original and oldest place the bow drill was invented across human history. I imagine it's vastly older than that, altho who knows when that might have been.