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I have a hard time with the study of history. Often it feels self-serving to make exciting and interesting-to-study claims. But I imagine the overwhelming major
by Waterluvian 4y ago
I have a hard time with the study of history. Often it feels self-serving to make exciting and interesting-to-study claims. But I imagine the overwhelming majority of the time, the actual explanations for things are mundane.
Swings are fun and are a technology that have been enabled for a very long time.
- SketchySeaBeast 4y agoI think what you're describing is archaeology. History is more of a scholarly endeavor while archeology is the one digging up sites and trying to explain things without context from contemporary writings.
- Waterluvian 4y agoKind of, yeah! I definitely feel it strongly with archaeology. But let me posit this: The further back into history you go, the harder it is to definitively figure out what, where, why, when, how. And the larger the blind spot, the easier it is to get creative with your explanations. Ie. it's a function of time. And archaeology is the study of history from a long time ago.