Maybe the question ought to be, are there lessons from archeology that can improve permaculture practices?
Maybe there are a whole bunch of questions along this line that we could be asking. My interest/study area last winter in geology, crossed over into archeology due to the geological areas that contain archeological sites of many ages. It seems that many "beliefs" about the origins of Homo sapiens and what they learned when and where, are being challenged by the current researchers, in part due to incredible new equipment, and improvements to older technology.
Too often, researchers came from Northern Europe (the funding push), and they wanted to run the show. But they had preconceived ideas from what they'd found in humans that either adapted to their ecosystem, or died! Other ecosystem adaptations were no less critical to survival, but require a very different mindset to recognize.
What looks like "farming" north of the Mediterranean, is very different that what looks like farming in Brazil! I suspect the entire concept of a food forest, very much evolved as a tropical farming method, which to a great degree, I suspect moved north from South America to North America where it is known that the Indigenous People intentionally planted "useful" species of trees, particularly American Chestnuts and various Oaks.
I'm hoping that as permies find documents or videos that have archeological impact on permaculture, that they will post them here.
That includes permies threads like this one:
https://permies.com/t/365630/Evidence-Humans-Making-Fire-Pushed
I should go looking for the one about an extinct Date Palm that researchers have tried to bring back from seeds found on an archeological site in the Middle East. There are a few other plants that went extinct due to Humans that it would be wonderful if they could be recovered, but I suspect those seeds are much smaller than date pits.
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