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Re:Findings from 3,300-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal co... by AlotOfReading on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @02:43PM (#33885884)
It's worth noting that falsificationism really only applies to experimental sciences like physics and chemistry. The "historical sciences" like geology, paleontology, and archaeology don't work that way because of the arrow of time. I'd recommend Cleland's original [1] or most recent paper [2] on this topic.

The upside is that we can differentiate between the quality of various competing hypotheses in a reasoned way. That's how we can say that the traditional academic narratives are epistemologically better than e.g. Tolkien's Silmarillion.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0987:HSESAT>2.0.C...

[2] http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/41241902

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Re:Findings from 3,300-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal co... by twobitshifter on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @04:03PM (#33887007)
Your second link is bad
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Re:Findings from 3,300-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal co... by AlotOfReading on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @04:11PM (#33887110)
Corrected.
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Re:Findings from 3,300-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal co... by moloch-hai on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @12:25AM (#33890906)
Falsification has happened plenty of times in historical and archaeological research. You could posit that Mohenjo Daro and Ur had no contact right up until trade goods showed up.

In recent memory just about everyone was dead certain that monumental architecture happened only where there was agriculture. And, that once a people took up agriculture, they kept at it. And, that humans got to the Americas no more than 15,000 years ago.

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