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Re:Always Be Quitting by CRConrad on Thursday June 10, 2021 @01:24PM (#27463161)
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
Re:Always Be Quitting by eru on Friday June 11, 2021 @02:41AM (#27470057)
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.