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Battles and kings are not garbage.
by FridayoLeary 5y ago
Battles and kings are not garbage.
- egypturnash 5y agoKings are definitely garbage.
- eru 5y agoI was talking about literal garbage dumps. They are incredibly important for archeology. Battles and kings and things that seem important when they are current, but aren't as interesting in a few hundred years as insight into daily life.
- CRConrad 5y agoNo, but all the ancient historians wrote about battles and kings, so we have that info all written up already. Very few of them wrote about the life of the average peasant, so to find out about that, one of the richest kind of archaeological sources are literal garbage dumps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midden
- eru 5y agoWhenever I hear people complain that our digital media won't leave much for future archaeologists, I always think of our enormous output of plastic, metal and glass garbage.