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Posted by bookofjoe 5 hours ago

Anthropeum – Where in the world, and when, does this human artifact belong?(anthropeum.com)
114 points | 32 comments
benbreen 51 minutes ago|
Great idea for a vibe coded project that is actually creative/original. Got in the top 4% as a professional historian. Would be interesting to see the professions of the people in the top .1 percent - is it people with Geoguessr type abilities or more like art historians and curators at the Met, I wonder?
mapuchuu 1 minute ago||
I made this game! woohoo
crystalPalace 2 hours ago||
I've been playing this nearly every day and sharing the results in my family's group chat. I've been to a lot of museums and I didn't realize how much information I wasn't retaining. No quiz once you exit I guess. Anthropeum really starts to train your brain to remember patterns, times, and locations. I often get stumped by whether something is Peruvian, African, or Native Islander. Always more to learn!
mortenjorck 3 hours ago||
This just became my new favorite daily game. The only thing I’d change is the time resolution: 1750-2000 should probably have the same number of divisions as 1000-3000 BC.
sosodev 1 hour ago||
I wonder how many people are using external resources when playing this. I have a hard time believing that the average lumps so far to the right of the score distribution unless this game is played exclusively by anthropologists haha.
yorwba 1 hour ago|
I scored above the median just getting the continent and millennium right. Admittedly I used knowledge about population density to pick the most likely spot, but that hardly makes me an anthropologist. I assume regular players will also pick up on patterns in where most artifacts are sourced from.
tobr 1 hour ago||
Looks like I should feel decent about my 72 083! Got a perfect 10k on two questions which surprised me.

Fun game, but 10 objects felt a little much for a daily challenge I think.

aabhay 1 hour ago||
It’s funny how much of a “ChatGPT tell” that thin weight accent header is. Sol seems to place that on _everything_.
damienmeur 2 hours ago||
Very cool ! Would be nice to have some explanation after answers on the objects so that I learn something, but pretty addictive and nice UI!
andai 1 hour ago||
It reveals a link to a page with more information, after you guess, and embeds an excerpt from that page, although they're a bit vague and general. Usually with a bit of scrolling I can find the part where it says what the thing actually is.
cyclopeanutopia 1 hour ago||
> pretty addictive

Is that good now? :(

damienmeur 1 hour ago||
This is 10min of attention of mine that didnt went into doom scrolling bulls*t on social medias, I guess it s positive :)
pimlottc 1 hour ago||
The timeline is not readable on narrow desktop windows (e.g. when you have two windows tiled side-by-side, but not so narrow as to switch to the mobile layout). The labels for the years overlap each other so it's very hard to read.

Fun game, though!

stevefolta 4 hours ago|
Someone turned me on to this recently, but mainly it ended up getting me back into Timeguessr. (I'm much better at Timeguessr.)
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