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Re:Archaeological dig reignites debate over the Old Testamen... by int_19h on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @08:08PM (#29803516)
We do find traces of human habitation from much older, though, including dwellings and cultural artifacts. So traces didn't disappear - they're there, and the picture that they paint is of a very primitive society.

It would be very strange indeed if the only things that disappeared were the ones necessarily to demonstrate that society was actually highly developed, no?

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Re:Archaeological dig reignites debate over the Old Testamen... by User23 on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @09:10PM (#29804076)
> It would be very strange indeed if the only things that disappeared were the ones necessarily to demonstrate that society was actually highly developed, no?

I’m no expert, but highly developed artifacts strike me as the ones most likely to be fragile to entropy and erosion.

In any event I’m only curious. Questioning an absence of evidence implying evidence of absence is just basic reasoning.

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