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To me there is a difference when you have fresh data vs very old data which may or may not be a result of the thing that you're proposing was a plausible cause
by mc32 4y ago
To me there is a difference when you have fresh data vs very old data which may or may not be a result of the thing that you're proposing was a plausible cause of something. With hundreds and thousands of years, things move, they weather, other things interact, floods, fire, get exposed buried, re-exposed buried...
- AlotOfReading 4y agoThere is an vast amount of literature on exactly these sorts of things, which we call 'formation processes'. I don't recommend you read any of it because most is stupifyingly boring, but please consider that academics have spent at least a few hours over the past couple centuries thinking about archaeological epistemology.