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thelonious
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The Plastic Age
Jan 07, 2021, 18:38
Interesting article if a bit depressing.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/iron-age-in-the-plastic-age-anthropocene-signatures-at-castell-henllys/716DAC98547C4A4D971E2E916589B8A3
thelonious
330 posts

Re: The Plastic Age
Jan 07, 2021, 19:27
Thinking still about this. Thought I'd post this link too. I watched this a few days back. What a shit world we are leaving for future archaeologists to dig up.

The Plastic Nile (it's nothing about old stuff so sorry for posting)

https://youtu.be/1uZVx_dHXqY
thelonious
330 posts

Re: The Plastic Age
Jan 07, 2021, 19:57
Need to play my go to cheery song now. It's been needed a fair few times over recently months.

'How to be happy in a sad sad world'

https://youtu.be/BGlLCJvbRww
drewbhoy
drewbhoy
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Re: The Plastic Age
Jan 09, 2021, 14:34
Just saw the BBC report for that and posted it - you'd think buckets hadn't been invented :-(
Sounder
Sounder
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Re: The Plastic Age
Jan 12, 2021, 18:56
My wife and I help out on Op Nigtingale/Breaking Ground Heritage digs, designed to support ex service men + women.

In 2019 we dug on a site in Aldbourne, Wilts which, (not prehistoric - apologies!), was the site of the camp of Easy Company, 101st Airborne (of Band of Brothers TV show).

We came across crisp and sweet packets which we could date to (from memory) 1970s/1980s.

All part of the story of the site but was especially good to show the school children who came round to demonstrate that these remain in tact after many years - certainly got them thinking.

Although we haven't found similar on other sites I can well believe it's happening.

Pics here if anyone is interested (there are links to photo journals on the site for other digs ranging from neolithic through to WW2 - photos are by Harvey Mills):

https://www.breakinggroundheritage.org.uk/about-1/digging-band-of-brothers.html
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