How has archeology a thing? Why is so much of our history found under the ground we reside today? Why do we have to dig down to find ancient towns? What happened?
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Survivorship bias.
The stuff that isn’t buried isn’t as protected, and doesn’t survive well. So they things we do find had to have some degree of protection, which is usually getting buried and no longer subject to wind and water erosion.
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