ArchaeoIain on Nostr: not exactly. Though I did once suggest to a distinguished person asking "What ...

not exactly. Though I did once suggest to a distinguished person asking "What happened to the Sumerians?" that the answer was they are still living in Iraq, just not making gold any more. So there are a lot of questions of that sort, Catal Huyuk most obviously, and I do not know ANYTHING about Hittites, except that I know how to pronounce Boğazkale. I think the replacement of the named entities in archaeohistory is an ongoing question and not trivial.