• @frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    History is known by:

    • Archæological evidence

    • Oral interviews with eyewitnesses

    • Texts

    • Archæogenetics

    • Historical linguistics

    • Myth (euhemerism)

    • Maybe some others I’m forgetting

    Dino-history isn’t comparable to tthe literate Roman period.

      • @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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        1511 months ago

        The Egyptians also mummified their dead, preserving the corpses into the modern era. “Older” ≠ “more evidence”

        We have loads more records from the Romans than from the Norse for example, even though the Norse came later, because the Norse didn’t keep as many records as the Romans.