We’re living in interesting times when it comes to history.  There’s a huge number of people who study the past.  Anthropologists, Archaeologists, Historians, and all sorts of other folks who piece together what humanity was.  It’s not an easy job – the farther you go back in time, the less information there is to work with.

Looking forward though, those people who’s job it is to re-construct the past is going to hold some interesting new challenges.  There may not be a lack of information – there may be an over abundance of information that makes it more interesting to sift and narrow down information on a single social group.

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