HIS101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Iliad
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As a historian - whether or not the falling of the tree left a record or trace. Not all events leave a record or traces. Records of the past - memories, archeological evidence, art, stories. Environmental evidence tells us about mechanical events that happen. (ex. dinosaurs) Records create a link between us and the past. The tree had no historical afterlife = no record. At the time that the tree falls a devastating event occurs (volcanic eruption) our tree does not get incinerated and it gets fossilized. The tree and stone which it incased becomes geological evidence. In both scenarios the story is the same what is different is contex. The context in which the scenarios take place is different. The second is contingency (accident/ unforeseeable) the tree was the only one that got saved. Very view records that survived of community - the preserved site becomes more than an event but a material connection to those that lived there before.
