Chat with Dan Carlin
Added 2023-05-31 17:11:17 +0000 UTCDan Carlin is one of the nicest people I've ever met in podcasting (or even outside of it). Here, he's kind enough to have me on as a guest for a conversation about archaeology. I hope you enjoy it.
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I'm glad you enjoyed it!
History on Fire
2023-06-06 04:26:44 +0000 UTCThis was a fun conversation. I was pleasantly surprised to see it. There are thousands of individual stories that could have been delved into with interesting implications, but for an overall picture, I thought you guys did a good job with some fun details. It's a strange paradigm now, where through careful archeology there are some aspects of the past that we know much better than people living much closer in time to those events than we are now. In both history and archeology, the enormous blank spaces in the record are tricky to work with though. Context that's just gone... it doesn't mean that that history and archeology doesn't have value, or that it's wrong for people to imagine what might have been, but it does put a cap on the depth of our understanding. Those scrolls though.......... reading what's on them would be really cool. It may well be possible with present technology, but the only ways I can think of would be destructive assays. Then again, maybe the destructive assays wouldn't work. It would depend on how fragile their insides are. Whichever the case, it's so much better when you have the tools to let you study something without cutting it into thousands of pieces. I'm sure the middle school students will be fine. Or at least, they won't suffer because more stuff is known, only because their teachers ask a lot from them.
Scott
2023-06-06 02:05:27 +0000 UTC
