RT @SamoBurja: #longhistory QT @robinhanson: "Researchers found evidence of a peak in lead pollution around 6,000 years ago during the Archaic period. This suggested a simultaneous peak in large-scale copper mining—and matched archaeological evidence from the same period." https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/native-americans-conducted-large-scale-copper-mining-6-000-years-ago/ 2023-01-18 18:25:26 UTC

RT @SamoBurja: With the application of lidar, drones, satellite imagery, and finally machine learning powered image classification: We're just at the of the technological transformation of archeology. Human history will be extended by tens of thousands of years. #longhistory. QT @CharlesCMann: Drone-based remote-sensing survey reveals ~4.5K-yr-old city in southern Iraq held 10s of thousands of people on series of marshy islands linked by Venice-like canals: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0278416522000666 News coverage: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mesopotamia-city-marsh-islands-drone-lagash-iraq /v @davidwengrow 2022-10-19 15:09:24 UTC