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All this time and countries' archaeological pursuits are still led by the British lmao
Huh? Baylor is in Texas.
The fourth paragraph:
SGARP is an interdisciplinary team led by Baylor University, in collaboration with the Virgil Academy in Rome, under the auspices of the Italian Ministry of Culture and in close partnership with the municipality of Barbarano Romano.
While Brits certainly still have an outsized role in international archaeology, I’m not seeing any Brits mentioned in this article.
We really need to stop focusing on the areas that every ice age covers if we want to find the really old shit...
During the last ice age, the sarrah was a rainforest. It cycles back and forth, but usually during an ice age it's one of the few habitable oasis. Everything else gets bulldozed by glaciers.
And anatomically modern humans have existed thru like 4 or 5 ice ages. We'll never find pre-ice age shit in Europe, but there's a shot at some truly unimaginable shit under all that sand.
We just don't really like looking there.