ArcheoTwitter has been abuzz in the past few days, prompted by this tweet about the ancients not being interested in antiquity before “Westerners decided it was valuable during the enlightenment.” The tweet contains the thesis, but also its own rebuttal: “artifacts were sometimes purposely destroyed to symbolize the inferiority of past civilizations.” Sometimes, they were…
Reading archaeology headlines: 0.7 million year old stone tools in Greece
It’s not unusual to see Greece featured in the archaeology headlines. Last weekend, a team of researchers released a claim about 700ky old archaeological remains near Megalopolis in the Peloponnese, which would nearly double the age of the oldest archaeology in the country, and which would be among the oldest archaeology in all of Europe.…
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