> the archaeological record seems to indicate that it's like one day we simply 'woke up.' Either that or the kinds of artifacts we look for simply don’t last l

> the archaeological record seems to indicate that it's like one day we simply 'woke up.' Either that or the kinds of artifacts we look for simply don’t last longer than 70k years on a planet like this. Or, it’s just rare enough that, when combined with the cost of excavation and the fact that scholarship builds on scholarship, it’s just not the kind of evidence scholars are going to dig far past we’ll established boundaries to find. Lots of possible explanations for the data.