Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio.

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, my name is Robert Lam.

And I'm Joe McCormack and we're back continuing the Spoon Challenge.

This is part two of our talk about Spoons.

If you haven't listened to part one from Tuesday of this week, you should go back and do

that one first.

Yeah, we're here to shove more spoons in your brain.

Yeah, we have quite a lot of cool stuff in this one as well.

We've got more stuff on ancient Chinese spoons.

We have some Chinese poetry.

We've got vampires.

We've got spoon magic, a little spoon pop culture.

Yeah, loads of fun.

So let's dive right in.

Sure.

So in the last episode, we talked about the spoon as an invention, a way that we might not

usually think about such a simple household object.

When we talked about some of the archaeological research on the earliest spoons, like how

artifacts that could be interpreted as spoons show up in rare and isolated instances back

into the Paleolithic, but that after the Neolithic revolution, when a settled existence based

on farming becomes common, spoons start to proliferate in the archaeological record.

And there are some, I think, very clear reasons for that.

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