Waterloo Uncovered

[tyger]

Since 2015, for two weeks each summer, archaeologists assisted by volunteers have been excavating the area around Hougouamont Farm on the Waterloo battlefield site in Belgium.

I only bring it to the attention of other readers as the http://www.waterloouncovered.com provides an ideal "compare and contrast" with Catherine Sturdy-Colls's archaeological techniques at Treblinka.

For example the archaeologists were surprised to learn that the defensive wall, complete, with loopholes was in fact a post-battle reconstruction.

[Moderator]

tyger,
How about a little more from you?
What else besides finding a post-battle wall is comparable?
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[tyger]

The BBC is an excellent source of documentaries that illustrate modern archaeological techniques. The latest (first broadcast in April 2021) is "Stonehenge: the lost circle revealed" It is about the search for the original location of Stonehenge's Blue Stones; enormous rocks that were transported from the Preselli Hills of southwestern Wales to Salisbury Plain, Despite more than 5000 years passing the archaeologists were able to identify the precise location.

Most interesting was their use of Luminescence Dating. A technique that determines how long ago mineral grains were last exposed to sunlight or sufficient heating. It is useful to geologists and archaeologists who want t know when such an event occurred.

[Merlin300]

Revisionism is the intellectual effort to make history more accurate.
Generally, this is done by finding "better evidence" that that which sustains the current version of the facts-
inaccurate claims of "eye witnesses" on the construction of buildings vs. actual construction documents or physical remains of the building.
Holocaust Belief is basically founded on testimonies and confessions. There are several elaborate sub-tales to "explain" why no bodies or traces of gassing victims have ever been found.
Waterloo Uncovered simply underscores the impossibility that all physical evidence has disappeared.



Over the past twenty or so years however, the use of various archaeological techniques has demonstrated that even though pre-twentieth century battles lasted only for a short time, Waterloo being fought over the course of a day, they leave tell-tale traces in the ground.

And it is these traces, rather than words in books, from which archaeologists, a bit like detectives on a crime scene, draw most of their information. Unlike words however, the objects themselves are perhaps more reliable witnesses than the writers of the words, as they are not biased or inhibited by a fading memory. This is not to say that history is bunk, just that it can most definitely be improved upon.

Most of these traces take the form of the many metal objects discharged or dropped during a battle. At Waterloo the vast majority of these artefacts are likely to be musket balls, which over the course of the day were fired in their many hundreds of thousands.
https://waterloouncovered.com/archaeolo ... chaeology/