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The historic record can leave out things that people think are super obvious. For example, if you look at a typical recipe for an omelet, they mention eggs but
by scheme271 5y ago
The historic record can leave out things that people think are super obvious. For example, if you look at a typical recipe for an omelet, they mention eggs but leave out the fact that it's chicken eggs. A 1000 years for now, people think that we meant duck or goose eggs or something else. Another example is the land of Punt. It was a fairly important trading partner with Egypt. The problem is that the historical record doesn't mention where it is so there's a debate about it's location.
- duskwuff 5y agoAnd historical records for post-Roman and early medieval Britain are just very limited. Very few documents exist from this period, and those that do exist (like the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: [1]) limit themselves to discussing events of great importance: the births, deaths, and major acts of royalty, battles won and lost, major weather events, and unusual celestial phenomena. The construction of a hill engraving probably wouldn't have been written down. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_Chronicle; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_Chronicle; https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/657/pg657.html https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/657/pg657.html