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Not an archeologist, but isn't most of what we find pretty sharply split between everyday stuff that was frozen in time or left behind in an unplanned catastrop
by mikepurvis 5y ago
Not an archeologist, but isn't most of what we find pretty sharply split between everyday stuff that was frozen in time or left behind in an unplanned catastrope (Anasazi, Pompeii, etc), and then the formal, intentional records left in tombs and so on?
I know both pieces are important, but the intentional record of some ruler tells you more about their ego than what everyday life was like.
I expect that even if we were all snuffed out tomorrow, there would be loads of our record remaining 1000+ years from now— both the intentional efforts like seed vaults, time capsules, stacks of hard copy documents sealed in safes, but also the enormous presence of all kinds of plastic, which even divorced from context would still give myriad insight into what daily life was like at the start of the 21st century.