A society structured to resist being catalogued and taxed by a central authority is for the same reason resistant to being reconstructed by archaeologists.

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• Root crops resist state taxation better than grain because they can be harvested piecemeal and stored underground. SJSteven Johnson3 Apr 2026
• Relieving the poor aggravates poverty; society should be rebuilt so poverty is impossible OWOscar Wildec. 1891
• Urban life in the West did not merely change after Rome, it practically vanished, and had to be built again from scratch centuries later. BDBret Devereaux28 Jan 2022
• Archaeology's culture names and periods draw lines where there were none, and the people themselves did not care about any of them. EBEd Barnhart30 Sept 2024
• Archaeological interpretations of human history are biased toward artifacts made of durable materials that survived, not what mattered most to the people who made them. SJSteven Johnson2 Mar 2026

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