the fact that I didn't quote something from each of the five doesn't mean I didn't read them. sometimes scientists can do isotopic analyses on teeth to see wha

the fact that I didn't quote something from each of the five doesn't mean I didn't read them. sometimes scientists can do isotopic analyses on teeth to see what foods people were eating, or show that a particular material had to have been imported from far away. The Bronze Age relied on tin, which was only found in a few places. All those facts from "pre-history" are really valuable. But some of it does seem to be "collective imagination," as someone else here called it.