“Oh to be a fly on the wall and go back in time.”
Indeed so. Better still, some visual time-lapse record of how a people & area evolved. Go to the video tape!
Don’t laugh but the confounding side of archeology for me is “digging”. Even sites no more than several hundred years old darn sure weren’t all deliberately built over or buried. Conquest (Spanish-Incas) and natural disasters aside, my half-thought explanation is cumulative airborne dust settling in. Some gradual, multi-century “dust bowl”.
my half-thought explanation is cumulative airborne dust settling in. Some gradual, multi-century “dust bowl”.