Louis Conde on Nostr: ...
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/shrill-piercing-and-scream-like-aztec-death-whistles-create-a-sense-of-fear-and-terror-in-listeners-brain-scans-reveal
It's so fun to watch archaeology go from throwing out all previous historiography of places like the Pre-Columbian Americas and Sub-Saharan Africa because it was all "racist imperialist propaganda", only to have more and more excavations not only reaffirm the original first hand accounts, but actually prove them to be understated because the average soldier wasn't fully equipped to take inventory of the scenes they were witnessing.
It's so fun to watch archaeology go from throwing out all previous historiography of places like the Pre-Columbian Americas and Sub-Saharan Africa because it was all "racist imperialist propaganda", only to have more and more excavations not only reaffirm the original first hand accounts, but actually prove them to be understated because the average soldier wasn't fully equipped to take inventory of the scenes they were witnessing.