[SunkenCiv]

In "In Search of the Trojan War", documentarian Michael Wood noted that where archaeologists want damage to be caused by earthquakes, that's what they claim, despite there being no way to tell from that particular pile of rocks. OTOH, for a long while the onset of the so-called Greek Dark Age (and corresponding "dark ages" elsewhere in the Mediterranean basin) was attributed to widespread earthquakes. One of *those* topics.

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[marktwain]

Lawrence Keeley notes the same thing about archaeologists and pre-history ruins. There was a concerted effort to find explanations that did not involve obvious conflict and war.

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com.au/2018/04/book-review-war-before-civilization.html