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Apart from sites devastated by a natural disaster like Pompei, why are there so many artifacts left behind/discovered at so many archaeological locations?

stdbrouw 4y ago
If you look at photographs of recent ruins, say from schools or hotels that have fallen into disuse, you'll often see the same thing: desks, cabinets, chairs, computers and all sorts of other objects still in place. Maybe the only explanation that is needed is that people couldn't be bothered to dispose of low-value items and just abandoned them? You may even have some of these mini-ruins at home or work: projects you abandoned halfway but that you never consciously decided to abandon and hence didn't clean up, so they were just left there.
- latchkey 4y ago
  Just watch a few Shiey episodes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OAKNxl2Jmw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OAKNxl2Jmw
  - jeffwask 4y ago
    His train episodes are crazy
  - ejb999 4y ago
    why is he in remote places, all by himself wearing a covid mask? - kinda of makes them the whole premise laughable and easy to write off.
    - latchkey 4y ago
      he's not wearing a covid mask, he is hiding his identity. it is pretty well known that those face coverings don't do anything for covid.
- bamboozled 4y ago
  There are whole towns like this in Japan. Schools, huge hotels almost untouched and abandoned. Pretty eerie but fun to see.
pottertheotter 4y ago
In this case, it was devastated by an earthquake.
ncmncm 4y ago
In fire or earthquake, buildings collapse, burying everything in situ. Any new construction goes up on top, because clearing it away would be more work nobody wants. In a fire, cuneiform tablets turn into fired ceramic, preserving a snapshot of what would have been evanescent records. Sometimes kitchen contents are charred but remain recognizable. Without garbage trucks, trash gets thrown out right in back, in "middens" that build up layer by layer until they get too big and are left, providing a chronology tagged with pollen grains.

stdbrouw 4y ago

If you look at photographs of recent ruins, say from schools or hotels that have fallen into disuse, you'll often see the same thing: desks, cabinets, chairs, computers and all sorts of other objects still in place. Maybe the only explanation that is needed is that people couldn't be bothered to dispose of low-value items and just abandoned them? You may even have some of these mini-ruins at home or work: projects you abandoned halfway but that you never consciously decided to abandon and hence didn't clean up, so they were just left there.

latchkey 4y ago
Just watch a few Shiey episodes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OAKNxl2Jmw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OAKNxl2Jmw
- jeffwask 4y ago
  His train episodes are crazy
- ejb999 4y ago
  why is he in remote places, all by himself wearing a covid mask? - kinda of makes them the whole premise laughable and easy to write off.
  - latchkey 4y ago
    he's not wearing a covid mask, he is hiding his identity. it is pretty well known that those face coverings don't do anything for covid.
bamboozled 4y ago
There are whole towns like this in Japan. Schools, huge hotels almost untouched and abandoned. Pretty eerie but fun to see.

pottertheotter 4y ago

In this case, it was devastated by an earthquake.

ncmncm 4y ago

In fire or earthquake, buildings collapse, burying everything in situ. Any new construction goes up on top, because clearing it away would be more work nobody wants. In a fire, cuneiform tablets turn into fired ceramic, preserving a snapshot of what would have been evanescent records. Sometimes kitchen contents are charred but remain recognizable. Without garbage trucks, trash gets thrown out right in back, in "middens" that build up layer by layer until they get too big and are left, providing a chronology tagged with pollen grains.