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Am I the only one who didn't know ancient trash piles are basically treasure maps for archaeologists?
Found out on a museum placard in Dublin that some "middens" hold 5,000 years of shells, bones, and broken pots all layered like a lasagna of daily life, which feels way more honest than any fancy tomb.
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taylor125d ago
Wait, have you heard about the whale bone middens up in Alaska? I read somewhere that those piles got so big over thousands of years that they actually changed the shape of the land, like whole hills made of nothing but old meals and tools. That blew my mind because you always picture history living in big stone buildings, not in somebody's garbage. The lasagna thing is spot on too, each layer is like a page in a book about what people ate and threw away. Honestly a trash heap tells you more about real life than a king's tomb ever could.
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