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FullLeatherJacket: Dec 30, 2004; Chiunque pu� essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

Pththya-lyi posted:

Not quite Bronze Age collapse time, but still interesting:

Apparently a lot of archaeologists think the "knife" was just a spearhead that happened to fall down from a shelf onto the 18-year-old and that there's no evidence the platform was an altar, but come on, they totally sacrificed that kid and the gods found the sacrifice unworthy

It feels like you have to add a lot of supposition in a story about a temple we know was destroyed in an earthquake in order to come out with an answer other than that all of the people there died when a building fell on them

That or the Sea People

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FullLeatherJacket: Dec 30, 2004; Chiunque pu� essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

Pththya-lyi posted:

I'm not really saying they definitely sacrificed that kid right before/during the quake, I just like to imagine that's the case.

Why you gotta harsh my buzz

tbf mostly I just enjoyed the mental image of a gaggle of archaeologists digging up a guy with massive crush injuries and immediately deciding that temple of doom was a documentary

if I spend 100k learning to dig up pottery you better believe that everything I find is going to be from a death cult

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What caused the Late Bronze Age Collapse?
	goku
	gently caress you
	The Sea Peoples
	semen
	The Dorians
	The Doors






	Natural disasters
	Climate change