Every time I read anything about ancient history or archaeology I really wish we'd adapt the #HoloceneCalendar.
This calendar starts (roughly) with the invention of farming and adds 10,000 to the Gregorian year, so that this year would be 12026.
Using it would avoid having to remember to count down for years in the BCE era and generally make dates in ancient history and most archeology less confusing.
Perhaps we could roll the computer updates into the preparation for the UNIX epoch?
I am with you, this is joining my herd of hobbyhorses.
Makes me think of a map of history I haven’t seen for a while, that was “time” on one axis and “proportion of global landmass controlled by” on the other, so all the cultures of the world flowed along like river currents. Small print on a long piece of paper, very information dense.
@clew I think I might have seen a map kind of like that, but the proportions look a little odd if the sizes are percentages of the world's landmass.
Like I assume it ends at 1950 or so, but if so why is the USA section so much bigger than the USSR/Russia section?
Could be wrong! Or they’ve changed sizes since then.
Floaty Birb
clew