givesomefucks@lemmy.world
on 21 Jul 2025 16:23
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We really need to stop focusing on the areas that every ice age covers if we want to find the really old shit…
During the last ice age, the sarrah was a rainforest. It cycles back and forth, but usually during an ice age it’s one of the few habitable oasis. Everything else gets bulldozed by glaciers.
And anatomically modern humans have existed thru like 4 or 5 ice ages. We’ll never find pre-ice age shit in Europe, but there’s a shot at some truly unimaginable shit under all that sand.
We just don’t really like looking there.
Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 21 Jul 2025 17:26
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All this time and countries’ archaeological pursuits are still led by the British lmao
BertramDitore@lemmy.zip
on 21 Jul 2025 21:30
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Huh? Baylor is in Texas.
The fourth paragraph:
SGARP is an interdisciplinary team led by Baylor University, in collaboration with the Virgil Academy in Rome, under the auspices of the Italian Ministry of Culture and in close partnership with the municipality of Barbarano Romano.
While Brits certainly still have an outsized role in international archaeology, I’m not seeing any Brits mentioned in this article.
Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 23 Jul 2025 17:28
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Many Americans aren’t far separated from the British
BertramDitore@lemmy.zip
on 23 Jul 2025 17:50
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We really need to stop focusing on the areas that every ice age covers if we want to find the really old shit…
During the last ice age, the sarrah was a rainforest. It cycles back and forth, but usually during an ice age it’s one of the few habitable oasis. Everything else gets bulldozed by glaciers.
And anatomically modern humans have existed thru like 4 or 5 ice ages. We’ll never find pre-ice age shit in Europe, but there’s a shot at some truly unimaginable shit under all that sand.
We just don’t really like looking there.
All this time and countries’ archaeological pursuits are still led by the British lmao
Huh? Baylor is in Texas.
The fourth paragraph:
While Brits certainly still have an outsized role in international archaeology, I’m not seeing any Brits mentioned in this article.
Many Americans aren’t far separated from the British
What?