SF Themed NFTs: No. 115

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Depiction of a biomorphic cairn recovered in pieces from the Stoneflint Tar Pits on Kepler 62E, no earlier than 1.1 million local cycles B.T. This exploded view gives some idea of the forethought and work involved in collecting and shaping the required pebbles and bone fragments, numbering in the hundreds. Simulations confirm that the assemblage would have collapsed under its own weight, implying that the pieces were incorporated within a matrix of some kind, now lost. As with the contemporaneous hide skinner recovered nearby, the form gives us a clue as to the species of the artisan. In the former case, the tool was intended for someone equipped with an opposable thumb. Here, the jaw region has a pronounced gill-like shape. Taken together, these clues point to an ancestor of the recently discovered hyperintelligent cave dwelling mammals cataloged as rodere sapien recedentia.