Michael McBride
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Chipper :
Woodhenge was close to Stonehenge and of course was made out of wood. Archeologists think it’s older than Stonehenge. The whole area of full of Stone Age structures. There is even a super henge as well. At Stonehenge there are postholes that show where wood once was. Some are marked in the parking lot for Stonehenge
2025-07-30 13:58:50
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CSVidal :
It' like how we associate prehistoric painting with caves, but it is likely those people were painting on outside surfaces too and those just didn't survive the millenia of exposure.
2025-07-30 14:19:38
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serginator720 :
Think of all the cities lost to time
2025-07-30 09:09:42
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bfjshzj :
If Sparta were to become desolate, and only the temples and foundations remained, future generations would hardly believe it had been so powerful. But if the same happened to Athens, its ruins would suggest it had been twice as powerful as it actually was. -thucilydes
2025-07-30 23:17:40
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Kori :
There was to my knowledge an entire city civilization in the Amazon that we only just recently uncovered because they used wood and other organic materials for their building rather than stone. We only found evidence of it through the indentations that the city left in the earth where the foundations used to stand
2025-07-31 08:09:39
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Lulu 🇨🇦 :
People think that buildings were made without any drawings or plans but it’s just cuz they didn’t survive. Architects in Middle East would draw on leather and specifically camel skin which can be soooo thin and at time transparent which is great for tracing
2025-07-31 02:51:13
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MsM :
yup! absence of evidence is not evidence of absence and that's something we need to be so aware of
2025-07-30 17:18:16
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Pierce :
Iron doesn’t last either
2025-07-30 18:11:04
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Virago dayz :
i feel you, my country used to have VERY dense rich forests all over, still does kinda, so our ancestors 2000 years ago used mainly wood collumns with limestone bases to build their temples. Their houses were made of mud and clay and wood with tatched roofs and all. Now all that remains of their sanctuaries are the bases that the massive wooden collums would sit on. It's such a shame.
2025-07-30 09:46:25
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unbebelievable :
It doesn't stop there: imagine the archeology of igloos. Who knows what architectural marvels have been made out of snow over the millenia😭
2025-07-30 15:34:11
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-Lu- 🦕 :
This is true, however we have found a 480,000 year old wooden man-made (well, not by Homo sapiens but by a Homo species) structure in Zambia so in very special cases we do find it
2025-07-31 00:59:22
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Burger • following :
I'm a burger
2025-07-30 09:15:17
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h8traid_auntie :
Archaeology has long since moved beyond those assumptions? How do you think woodhenge is even known about? And we would know about huge wooden structures because they leave evidence, provided that evidence hasn’t been bulldozed away be development. Same goes for art, that it’s only preserved in caves and overhangs b/c of preservation conditions is a long studied issue, with all kinds of attempts and methods to try and sus out more data.
2025-07-31 14:15:29
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Helios :
I already kinda knew this since I'm from Norway and we have very few old buildings left cause they're made of wood.
2025-07-31 09:01:11
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rjl89 :
I had never thought about how this applies to Egypt until I did a module on it at uni and the lecturer said we don't really know that much about normal ancient Egyptians because nearly all the surviving stuff we have is long lasting stuff like stone... built by rich people.
2025-07-31 08:27:48
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Rhŷn_art🏴 :
you'll find them in clay and bog lands, beaches across UK constantlu spit out odd shapes from the last few ice ages, I'd argue that these things are important, whilst archeologists will dismiss them
2025-07-30 14:24:11
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Fernando :
It’s like when people have still have the perception that the Amazon have always been a green unhabitable hell when there’s clear evidences that it was once very populated and had very complex settlements dating from thousands of years ago
2025-07-31 06:30:11
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Flemming :
It’s why the psychos are outing themselves in the race to, somehow, comodify the priceless nature of Library, of a World Wide Web of libraries that can preserve everything … while simultaneously convincing people that art and science are just memes.
2025-07-31 16:49:17
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Luisa :
Also a big bias. We think old societies revered large statues etc. but it’s more that that’s just what survives
2025-07-30 17:25:44
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Cascade the thyme :
Or hear me out... possibly digital?.. 🤔
2025-07-30 23:38:43
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Marco Polo Goes Halal :
I started to think we need to carve our history in granite just incase disaster happens etc
2025-08-01 06:35:49
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¡Sefere :
Thanks for not showing us 🥰
2025-07-31 16:24:33
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molecool :
Correct that is the reason we had the misconception that ancient people ate a lot more meat when in reality the bones just last way longer
2025-07-31 10:51:12
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ccjokok :
I’m dizzy
2025-07-31 13:58:09
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Kunborribo 🍉 :
Yeah I am Cambodian and our temples are beautiful but the vast majority of the complex was built with woods that didn't survive.
2025-08-01 02:28:34
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