Re:Always Be Quitting
by FridayoLeary on Thursday June 10, 2021 @10:21AM
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Battles and kings are not garbage.
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No, but all the ancient historians wrote about battles and kings, so we have that info all written up already. Very few of them wrote about the life of the average peasant, so to find out about that, one of the richest kind of archaeological sources are literal garbage dumps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midden
Whenever I hear people complain that our digital media won't leave much for future archaeologists, I always think of our enormous output of plastic, metal and glass garbage.
I was talking about literal garbage dumps. They are incredibly important for archeology.
Battles and kings and things that seem important when they are current, but aren't as interesting in a few hundred years as insight into daily life.
Re:Always Be Quitting
by egypturnash on Thursday June 10, 2021 @11:57AM
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Kings are definitely garbage.