I am just now watching some shit on the Discovery Science Channel about the Etruscans, and their shipping. And they are wondering whether or not the Etruscans stacked their amphorae, and whether or not they “crammed vines in between as interface.” FUCKING IDIOTS! Doesn’t the standardization of size among amphorae across the Mediterranean indicate that there was some packaging consideration at play? And, if so, wouldn’t some ingenuous sole quickly devise using woven mats as interface, rather than “cramming” loose vines?

Stop being idiots.