3rd November 2010, 02:29 PM
i'd say it's better to state your position and have to defend it, than to use a nebulous phrase as a stick to beat others with when they fail to achieve the clarity of your own vision of the past...
practising archaeology is in itself a journey on which one learns a mass of new information, some of it practical some of it not, which one attempts to apply to the past, but it is all subject to the practitioner's own world-view, prejudices, and understandings of the structures of the discipline, as much as of reality - and so, i would suggest that it is their views as much as - if not more - their interpretative methodologies to which you are objecting - but then again, i might be misreading your drawing attention to the Past Horizons article
practising archaeology is in itself a journey on which one learns a mass of new information, some of it practical some of it not, which one attempts to apply to the past, but it is all subject to the practitioner's own world-view, prejudices, and understandings of the structures of the discipline, as much as of reality - and so, i would suggest that it is their views as much as - if not more - their interpretative methodologies to which you are objecting - but then again, i might be misreading your drawing attention to the Past Horizons article
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