Posted on 03/31/2011 10:38:39 AM PDT by Red Badger
That was perfectly good, reusable dried clay, until the idiot fired it. Did he think there was an inexhaustable supply of suitable clay, just for the digging?
Did he not realize that that such thoughtless waste, if all the scribes did the same, would cause the premature closing of the local landfill thus necessitating the hauling of trash (at increased expense) farther to a new location?
Do you think the "experts" in the late 1800's who "devote[d] their lives to studying a subject actually [knew} something about it"?
I suggest you take your observations to Heinrich Schliemann. No doubt he will be glad to hear them.
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Well... some things can surprise from time to time. But I agree with the basic point that we do tend to terribly underestimate the technological prowess of ancient cultures. I think there’s been some ‘surprisingly’ sophisticated societies going much further back than is often supposed.
Whoops! And thanks BenLurkin!
Santorini certainly would have cooked this tablet to well done!
There's a new article about Iklaina that purports to reveal new discoveries. It's apparent that there's no one new thing in the whole article, but it makes a nice pretext for an updated ping message and such. This topic is from 2011.
and from the FRchives:
Archaeological dumpster diving.
5000 years from now future archaeologists will record our history from garbage dumps. “The culture was obsessed with an inedible, white synthetic peanut and sheets of synthetic bubbles of nothing but air and the most disturbing find of all were padded wrappers with mummified feces inside....
It says “MAGA”!!!! Vote Trump!!!!”
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