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Amateur archaeologist in Switzerland unearths 2k-year-old Roman dagger

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Post by spacelamb »

atarian wrote: post #8

I wonder what archaeologists 2000 years from now will unearth as news-worthy.

Probably objects that make you imagine about what day-to-day living was like in the past.

If VR becomes widespread, perhaps the first VR headset. Or perhaps niche, quaint items with great craftsmanship (no longer used at all in the future), like a high-quality metal mechanical pencil, fountain pen, or ballpoint pen.

Early commercial spacecraft (SpaceX) would also be a certainty, as the expansion of humanity across space is near-guaranteed (as long as humanity doesn't destroy itself). Perhaps also today's fashion (thinking of fashion museums).

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Post by holoduke »

atarian wrote: post #8

I wonder what archaeologists 2000 years from now will unearth as news-worthy.

A few years ago in Amsterdam , The Netherlands a construction company had to dig a tunnel through a former canal. The canal existed for few hundreds of years and was only a decade ago filled and a road was build on top of it. They found about 700.000 artifacts from the middle-ages till modern times. Speer arrows, swords, guns, money, credit cards, music cassettes, smoke pipes etc. I believe there is a exposition dedicated to those findings. Very interesting.

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Post by josefx »

adventured wrote: post #9
atarian wrote: post #8

I wonder what archaeologists 2000 years from now will unearth as news-worthy.

A still working Apple II that was forgotten in a bunker.

Anything newer would probably refuse to boot up due to expired certificates and missing drm servers.

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Post by saetaes »

selleck wrote: post #15

Sometimes thought it is a bummer living in the states, less of an opportunity to go find some 1000+ year old relics knowing full well the likelihood of that happening is slim even if I lived in another country with bronze/iron age.

People lived in the US 1000+ years ago, and I feel pretty confident that if you know where to look, relics can still be found.

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Post by handrous »

saetaes wrote: post #17
selleck wrote: post #15

Sometimes thought it is a bummer living in the states, less of an opportunity to go find some 1000+ year old relics knowing full well the likelihood of that happening is slim even if I lived in another country with bronze/iron age.

People lived in the US 1000+ years ago, and I feel pretty confident that if you know where to look, relics can still be found.

I think most folks would have more fun with a metal detector and a map of Civil and Revolutionary War military camps and battlegrounds, or even just poking around ghost towns or old farmhouses, than looking for pre-Columbian artifacts, up here north of the Rio. It's largely disappointing and if you actually manage to sort-of prove that the broken barely-recognizable spear point you found came from some named group of people circa 800 CE, you'll inevitably find that we know almost nothing about them and that what we do know makes them sound exactly like every other group around that time, since we just don't know much about any of them besides trite generalities.
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