Archaeologists investigate what life was like after dark in the ancient world
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#2Came here wondering why the hell HN was discussing a mockumentary about vampires...
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#3The concept of night mayors is interesting, and I’d love to see the concept extended further into other sectors of government.
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#4I've never understood why this topic is being studied primarily through archaeology. There are plenty of humans alive today that live far from much artificial light and could tell you exactly what their life is like right now, what they did last night. Shouldn't have to be so hard / so mysterious
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#5This was unfortunately titled, there is a movie titled "What We Do in the Dark".
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#6I've never understood why this topic is being studied primarily through archaeology. There are plenty of humans alive today that live far from much artificial light and could tell you exactly what their life is like right now, what they did last night . Shouldn't have to be so hard / so mysterious
Partially because the humans alive today don't have the same culture as the humans in the past. I'd imagine that a comparison between lit+unlit living today would fall under the umbrella of sociology.
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#7This was unfortunately titled, there is a movie titled "What We Do in the Dark".
I think we are all thinking of 'What We Do in the Shadows'... FWIW. Great movie.
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#8I've wondered how particulate pollution affects this, also. Discussions on this topic always seem to always focus on light pollution, but anyone taking a flight can see a haze just about anywhere from pollution. I'd imagine it diffuses incoming light from extraterrestrial sources and it reflects light pollution, for a double-whammy.
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#9The concept of night mayors is interesting, and I’d love to see the concept extended further into other sectors of government.
As I recall from the 1980s sitcom Night Court, there are night judges (though I have no idea if that is a real thing, I doubt my town has night judges).
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#10Very interesting. There was one other scholarly work in this general area — but that was comparatively much more recent: Roger Ekirch’s “At Day’s Close” [1], which is very well-researched and covers pre-artificial-light Europe.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/At-Days-Close-Night-Times/dp/03933290...