Too Long; Didn't Read
An archeologist in America dug up fossilized remains of a mastodon that were found to be 130,000 years old. A temple called Gobleki Tepe in Turkey was estimated to be around 11,000-years-old. Despite popular belief, there were organized civilizations in that period. This story and the lack of attention it had when first published shows us how modern historians and archeologists examine new information and decide whether or not to add it into the greater narrative of human history: they don’t.