AtD translation: It all has to be dated more closely than it is anyway.

[Mike Jing]

So "closely" here means "with close attention or investigation". Got it.
Thanks, Laura.


On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 8:22 AM Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com> wrote:

> Has to be carbon-dated to pinpoint the actual period they were there.
>
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019, 1:11 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> P278.18-27   “I was out there for a year. Too long. After a while it seeps
>> into you. Somebody else now is writing up the report, career expectations
>> will be a factor. I’m just one of the hired hands that dug in the dirt,
>> climbed those red rocks and benches and carried the gear, got infected
>> with
>> the insanity of the place, and they know enough now not to pay any
>> attention to hysterical girl graduates. It all has to be dated more
>> closely
>> than it is anyway. Whoever the people were, they only lasted a few years
>> up
>> in those cliffs. After that, nobody knows. Maybe they kept going. If they
>> were the same ones who made the exodus southward from Aztlán and became
>> the
>> Aztecs, that might have something to do with those human sacrifices the
>> Aztecs became famous for.”
>>
>> What does this sentence mean exactly?
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