
EP26 Dig This!
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum
The Future of Archeology
We need to remember that archeology is the destructive form of research. Once you dig up a site, you get whatever information your current technology is able to give you but also destroy often a whole lot of evidence in the process. It reminds me of things like earlier crime scenes, right? If they had known that we would want DNA evidence today, they would have gone about investigating the crime scene differently a hundred years ago or what have you.
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