To: decimon
"how Iron Age people could have communicated from their hilltop homes 2,500 years ago"
"Their aim was to learn if communities could have used the summits to warn each other"
Italics inserted.
Does this really tell them anything that a study of topographical data could not?
3 posted on
03/20/2011 6:28:07 PM PDT by
Christian Engineer Mass
(25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many younger conservative Christians out there? __ Click my name)
To: Christian Engineer Mass
I think we’ve pretty much known this forever. All you have to do is watch a good western!!
To: Christian Engineer Mass
Does this really tell them anything that a study of topographical data could not?Field testing.
9 posted on
03/20/2011 6:36:16 PM PDT by
decimon
To: Christian Engineer Mass
It is only theoretical to see if it’s possible. It’s another thing to see if it was of practical use, in the event of an invading army.
13 posted on
03/20/2011 6:49:01 PM PDT by
Jonty30
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