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Well, in cities, a house might get destroyed to make room for a new building, and it is often easiest just to tear it down and build on top of it than to cart a
by 24gttghh 8y ago
Well, in cities, a house might get destroyed to make room for a new building, and it is often easiest just to tear it down and build on top of it than to cart away all the old building materials. Not to say valuable building stones and other things aren't simply reused in other structures. Or, a lot can happen in 1,000 years like floods (depositing silt), earthquakes (making lots of rubble), wars, and fires, that would wreck a building. Not sure what your CO2 angle is though.
This is the jist of it:
https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/why-do-we-have-to-dig-so-deep-to-uncover-ancient-ruins/ https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/why-do-we-have-to-...
- jmts 8y agoOne of my friends is an archaeologist. My view of an archaeologist was always one where they are leisurely researching history, finding locations for finds, cautiously digging in the fields, sorting shards of pottery, etc. She described instead a potentially stressful job performing surveys on urban sites to determine the historical significance of a location to give a go/no-go to developers looking to build a multi-million dollar apartment complex on top of what once might have been the governors home, which was once on top of an officer's quarters, which was once an indigenous settlement.