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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Cities settle and build up all at once. If you’re in a new country like the states it’s less obvious, but I’m in a European city about a thousand years old, and you commonly see old doorways in limestone walls where the road has risen so much over the centuries that less then half remains above ground level, sometimes even more. It happens slower than we perceive, but cities are always settling and building over.
Other stuff to worry about. If a regular civilian adult in 2003 (20 years ago) saw something like that and didn’t have a dedicated camera, all they could do is call and tell a friend or family member. Let alone thousands of years ago
You generally don’t find a fully buried house or structure. You’ll typically find something like the floor and maybe 6-12 inches of a wall.
Drive down country roads and look at all the barns/abandoned houses/sheds that are collapsing and imagine that only the bottom 1-5% needs to be buried in dust and dirt to be preserved.
You generally don’t find a fully buried house or structure. You’ll typically find something like the floor and maybe 6-12 inches of a wall.
Drive down country roads and look at all the barns/abandoned houses/sheds that are collapsing and imagine that only the bottom 1-5% needs to be buried in dust and dirt to be preserved.
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