AskHistorians

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Nowadays our cities and town are filled with memorials to people, often on park benches. Did this practice have an equivalent in most other societies?	1
There are engineer/designers who make kinetic art, geneticist/designers who make organisms with artistic flourishes, ecologist/designers who use machinery to show how difficult it would be to artificially recreate broken natural processes. Are there historian/designers, and if so what do they make?	1
How have so many Ancient Greek and Roman statues come down to us?	1
Has writing ever been developed in societies that didn’t have things like monumental architecture, powerful hierarchies, domestic plants and animals, large settlements etc.? Did hunter-gatherers ever develop it?	1
Are the pigeons that we have in cities descended from carrier pigeons that went feral after we started communicating in other ways?	1
Some artists/designers combine engineering and art (ie kinetic sculpture), some combine biology and art (ie transgenic art). Do you know of any artists who combine history and art?	1
To what extent is our capacity to change our social structures linked to our discovery of new techniques for working with materials?	1
Can you do history about people who didn’t really have writing, like medieval peasants? If so, why is prehistory a thing? It seems like you could just extend history back indefinitely, even if it decreased in richness as you went further back in time.	0
How many historical primary sources from other countries are unavailable to us because they haven’t yet been translated into English?	0

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