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

Thinking about some of the massive floods in Australia over the last few years and how hard that is to clean up I could well imagine if similar types of events happened in ancient times people might either simply build on top or go somewhere else and at some later point someone else built on top