RECONSTRUCTING+THE+PAST

__**COMMENTS ON RECONSTRUCTING THE PAST USING PHYSICAL EVIDENCE AND INFERENCE**__
===How do historians and archaeologists go about recovering the past? How do they use physical evidence and inference in the process? What are some good examples of how the process works? Why is the process often difficult and imprecise? Why are conclusions drawn by experts often later overturned? What happens whenever new and better evidence becomes available? MAXIMUM OF 15 COMMENTS. NO DUPLICATIONS. Short comments and observations are OK.===

1. When an archaeologist uncovers a new artifact, he or she must make an educated assumption about what the artifact was used for. This process, called inference, may require the archaeologist to come to a conclusion by relating a similar object's use in the modern world or assume what it may be based on observations, and it is not always accurate. (cne)

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