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How Ancient Economies Fell Apart: Interview with Professor Sarah Murray

Tides of History

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What's the Future of Archaeology?

Paleoanthropologists tend to use school measuring as a proxy for relatedness of specimens. New analytical techniques are opening up things that would have seemed impossible 20 years ago, he says. There's an increasing emphasis on excavating more people from different sectors of the economy than just rich and well-to-do individuals. He thinks this will change how we assess these economies in comparative perspective.

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