re: #51 William Barnett-Lewis

Meh, not a whole lot to get too excited about documenting unless you’re into pretending that Atlantas was real in those days. Just another bunch of hunter and gatherers don’t leave all that much evidence behind them, ya know?

You’d be surprised.

Dig a bunch of holes and stick things in them… 10,000 years later the it’s still findable. Once Stonehenge and Avebury gave archaeologists the clue what to look for, they found dozens of places that had wooden versions long since rotted away. And of course burial mounds… erosion doesn’t erase them, and the skeletons and artifacts inside are remarkably well-preserved.

Then if you go inland, and find adobe stuff, or carved out of cliffsides — that evidence lasts as long as any stone structure. Maybe longer, since dilapidated stone buildings tend to get their components repurposed into fences or paving.