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GEARHEADGus t1_j9n46q4 wrote

Reply to Weekly History Questions Thread. by AutoModerator

How the hell do i find historiographies?

I’ve searched to no avail. I’ve tried google, but ever since they messed with algorithm its dogshit.

Im trying to find a historiography of prohibition (temperance.) if anyone can help, id appreciate it

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Wellgoodmornin t1_j9mvgem wrote

Reply to comment by InevitableBohemian in The First Fossil Finders in North America Were Enslaved and Indigenous People by nemo_to_zero

I will admit it's more interesting than i originally thought. I stopped reading after they seemed to move on from the elephant tooth to Lewis and Clark because I wanted to know more about the elephant tooth and it annoyed me. I didn't realize they circle back to it.

*mammoth tooth

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InevitableBohemian t1_j9mtr91 wrote

Reply to comment by Wellgoodmornin in The First Fossil Finders in North America Were Enslaved and Indigenous People by nemo_to_zero

If you read the article, it has some pretty cool stories about early fossil discovery and identification from enslaved and indigenous people, including some of the first identification of a mammoth molar as belonging to an elephant-like creature (the slaves had some experience with elephants, you see.) Notably, this stood at odds to a prevailing theory that it was from giants who drowned in Noah's flood.

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