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The Archaeology of Innovation

Peoples & Things

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The Origins of Incest in Ireland

An individual buried in a big, fancy tomb who's the product of close family incest. So incest was licet amongst individuals in society and this person was respected despite that. That's tuts an extreme example, and i just makes me crazy il but you see this ind over and over. There's the sense that, well, we've got science, now we can science it, and that will tell us real things about the past,. not this stuff that you make up from stone and pottery and bits of dirt.

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