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Case in point: skeletons from the Danube valley (Djerdap Gorges I guess?). He says that 18 skeletons with evidence of violence is a BIG deal in the skeletal series of 400 skeletons. But are they really? Do you expect that all of those people lived at the same time? That they represent the complete population of the Danube valley? We wish! Paleodemography - the joy and bane of my existence!
— Jun 25, 2022 08:47AM
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It’s really weird reading this book from a perspective of an archaeologist who studies prehistory. I get that the point was to make a cliff-notes version of complete human history, to sketch out general ideas rather than concrete examples. But. BUT. There’s a reason History and Archaeology are two different branches of study. We don’t look at the same things in the same way.
— Jun 25, 2022 08:44AM
