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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

Charles Mann

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

Chris Blattman loved it
If I had read this book before I entered grad school, I might have become an archaeologist. From the outside, archeology feels like a field where it’s hard to do pathbreaking work.

on chrisblattman.com · 17 Jan 2022

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.