Good examples of the futility of such a project are the tsunami stones of Japan. There are hundreds of them dating back centuries, some of which quite literally say "Do not build your homes below this line. Giant waves occasionally destroy everything closer to the sea." We even knew the meaning of these markers, and still chose to ignore them.
Re:Ten Thousand Years
by notahacker on Sunday July 27, 2014 @04:02PM
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It's intriguing just how many ancient relics are associated with death. Some, like the pyramids, were obvious demonstrations of wealth and power to commemorate the dead, but I wonder how many of the more primitive "monuments" in the form of mounds of earth covered in stones were intended less for veneration and more as simple, pragmatic indications "dead people lie here; not a good place to farm".
Re:Ten Thousand Years
by kachnuv_ocasek on Sunday July 27, 2014 @03:57AM
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>we know that anything that can harm us now wouldn't be technologically possible 10k years ago
Some obscure diseases can still strike us.
"The site was deliberately backfilled sometime after 8000 BCE: the buildings were buried under debris, mostly flint gravel, stone tools, and animal bones that must have been imported from elsewhere."
The reason for filling it up, which probably took enormous resources at the time, is unknown. Why would they bury the site? Maybe something "bad" is buried there. But we know that anything that can harm us now wouldn't be technologically possible 10k years ago. Still ...
And you know what: We're digging it up!