Eli5 – Why are we finding entire homes and streets in archaeological digs? doesn’t anyone notice a street or building starting to get covered in dirt and dust? at some point someone must notice the old plato theatre is knee high into the earth?

Question

Eli5 – Why are we finding entire homes and streets in archaeological digs? doesn’t anyone notice a street or building starting to get covered in dirt and dust? at some point someone must notice the old plato theatre is knee high into the earth?

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Answer 1

Drive along the old railroad routes of the midwest, and you’ll find entire abandoned towns slowly crumbling and getting buried under plant life. it’s not that no one notices these places becoming lost, it’s that there’s no imediate need to preserve them, and eventually they pass from living memory.