Audrey TruschkeAlright folks -- Do you have questions about how historians think and make claims about the past? Ask away. #MastodonThread #Thread #history
Rajendra Kumar R@audreytruschke thought process of historians?! For ex: Like based on articrafts/ornaments, how the people lived there? For how many years, p people are living there,their health and wealth, etc
@RajendraKumar_R I am a rather textually focused historian. But you would be amazed the sort of nuanced historical claims that people can and do make based on only material evidence, such as beads in ancient India. Essentially everything we know about the IVC is based on material evidence.
Even for textually focused scholars like me, material evidence remains important. It can provide a counter narrative, even, to what texts tell us.
@audreytruschke Thank You.