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This. I would go so far as to say anywhere outside the US and Australia (where the cities have only existed for less than 3-400 years). But European countries p
by semi-extrinsic 10y ago
This. I would go so far as to say anywhere outside the US and Australia (where the cities have only existed for less than 3-400 years). But European countries probably have stricter norms and laws for preserving old artifacts than Asian and African countries (Maslow's pyramid etc. etc.).
- TeMPOraL 10y ago> But European countries probably have stricter norms and laws for preserving old artifacts than Asian and African countries (Maslow's pyramid etc. etc.). Reminds me of what my mother, who had a lot of archeology subjects at university, said about Egypt - that they have a shit ton of archeologically significant findings there, but because of the policy of not exporting artifacts outside the country combined with museums being already overflowed, people end up routinely destroying artifacts they find because there's nothing else to do with them.
- jpatokal 10y agoAs it happens, the construction of Sydney's shiny new light rail was almost halted because they found a bunch of Aboriginal artefacts under the route: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/call-to-halt-sydney-light-rail-after-massive-indigenous-artefact-find-20160329-gnsxr4.html http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/call-to-halt-sydney-light-rail-aft...