Are these Danish cities older than previously thought?

Rethinking common knowledge is not only for the Americas.


FTA: "Sometimes you have to take a deep breath and look again. And I think that's the case here,"

  Summary article about this original citation:

 Mads Runge et al. The origins of Odense – new aspects of early urbanisation in southern Scandinavia, Danish Journal of Archaeology (2018). DOI: 10.1080/21662282.2018.1475891 

LiDAR Scans Reveal Maya Were Far Bigger and More Complex Than Thought

FTA: Discover  summary of a Science paper

:  “It’s amazing. It’s so new. This is the kind of thing that no one ever suspected to show up,” says Michael Coe, a Yale University archaeologist and Maya scholar who’s not involved with the team. “It’s a major discovery.”

my comment: Looking back through my links on this blog, this has been a recurring theme recently.  It takes awhile before things change from TPT to common knowledge.