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Serious question here. If all historians have to go on are historical texts and documents, how does history as a discipline move forward assuming that very few relevant new texts are discovered each year? How is progress distinguished from pure speculation?

430 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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If no birth certificate were recorded at someone's birth, and they didn't have a good idea of how old they were, would there be any kind of test that could reliably give them an age?

7 upvotes • r/askscience

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What exactly is happening when my playstation3 freezes mid-game?

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Serious question here. If all historians have to go on are historical texts and documents, how does history as a discipline move forward assuming that very few relevant new texts are discovered each year? How is progress distinguished from pure speculation?	430	AskHistorians
If no birth certificate were recorded at someone's birth, and they didn't have a good idea of how old they were, would there be any kind of test that could reliably give them an age?	7	askscience
What exactly is happening when my playstation3 freezes mid-game?	1	askscience