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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If people are moving out of an area, they don’t care to make sure they leave it intact. If an area is abandoned it’s probably because something in the environment or the economy or society changed. These days it’s when companies shut down factories or other similar things. In the old days it was when wars happened, or mines shut down, or rivers dried up, or there was a famine and you couldn’t farm, or a competing industry in another location took over and some place shut down. People move out. In the US this happens, and it happened in the pas with ghost towns. People would live the town because the mine didn’t have any more gold or something similar. If you’re looking for a new job in a new place you don’t care about what you’ve left behind.
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