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Did the first people who specialized in ceramics hold a high position similar to the first people who specialized in metalworking?

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I’ve heard that it was worked out pretty early on that the Earth was a sphere. What did people think it was shaped like before this? What did people think the universe as a whole was shaped like before this?

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Have humans actually behaved in roughly the same way all throughout history?

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Questions about the Three-Age system (Stone Age, Bronze Age etc)? Why did we choose three ages, and what are the pros and cons of dividing history and prehistory in this way?

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Does the text on early Chinese oracle bones ever refer to writing on less survivable mediums like paper? If so, do we know what that writing may have been about?

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How reliable is The Old Book of Tang? Can we trust it when it says that 20,000 - 30,000 civilians were eaten during the Battle of Suiyang?

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How common were mummies in Egypt before they started being ground up for medicine?

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When did literate people start writing autobiographies? What are the earliest probable autobiographies or fragments that exist, and who wrote them?

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Do you think that a historian’s task is to work with written texts? If so, what kind of power does that limitation provide? If not,could the practice of history extend into pre-literate times, “reading” human remains, languages etc. to make a cohesive narrative about what happened in the past?

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Are the pigeons that we have in cities descended from carrier pigeons that went feral after we started communicating in other ways?

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Did the first people who specialized in ceramics hold a high position similar to the first people who specialized in metalworking?	9	AskHistorians
I’ve heard that it was worked out pretty early on that the Earth was a sphere. What did people think it was shaped like before this? What did people think the universe as a whole was shaped like before this?	9	AskHistorians
Have humans actually behaved in roughly the same way all throughout history?	6	AskHistorians
Questions about the Three-Age system (Stone Age, Bronze Age etc)? Why did we choose three ages, and what are the pros and cons of dividing history and prehistory in this way?	6	AskHistorians
Does the text on early Chinese oracle bones ever refer to writing on less survivable mediums like paper? If so, do we know what that writing may have been about?	6	AskHistorians
How reliable is The Old Book of Tang? Can we trust it when it says that 20,000 - 30,000 civilians were eaten during the Battle of Suiyang?	5	AskHistorians
How common were mummies in Egypt before they started being ground up for medicine?	3	AskHistorians
When did literate people start writing autobiographies? What are the earliest probable autobiographies or fragments that exist, and who wrote them?	3	AskHistorians
Do you think that a historian’s task is to work with written texts? If so, what kind of power does that limitation provide? If not,could the practice of history extend into pre-literate times, “reading” human remains, languages etc. to make a cohesive narrative about what happened in the past?	2	AskHistorians
Are the pigeons that we have in cities descended from carrier pigeons that went feral after we started communicating in other ways?	1	AskHistorians