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Re:What if we called it the Flax Age instead of the Iron Age? by ncmncm on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @10:54AM (#21584944)
Archaeology is among the hardest of the "soft" sciences. They routinely rely on radioactivity, density of pollen varieties, tree-ring correlation, and genetic analysis to determine ground facts.
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Re:What if we called it the Flax Age instead of the Iron Age? by SketchySeaBeast on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @11:06AM (#21585054)
They use hard science tools, but archaeology is still trying to determine facts about culture and ancient societies, which are distinctly not hard.
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