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Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum

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The Trade-Offs of Archaeology

There is no such thing as bad information about the past as long as it's accurate and you do your best to create her to just not step on people's sensibility by beating the proverbial grandma. Ultimately from a scientific standpoint all knowledge is good knowledge in the regard of anything that we can discover else. I was reading a story the other day about something that I was completely ignorant about known as the desert kite traps but apparently there's like six thousand of these things. They didn't discover any of them until until flight was invented because you can only see them from the air. It's one of these things where not only are these sophisticated things that people did not think people in prehistory

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