6th November 2010, 11:23 AM
so aliens japanese and chinese are ruled out but you want my thoughts on the external influences on processes that would factor on knapping-prior to contact with european colonisation with the twist that lets keep it simple suggests that there are a myriad of external influence situation processes to consider factoring on.
All I can think of at the moment is that I have never knapped -i presume that you refer to striking concoildial fracturing materials rather than snoozing- on an original principle of mine that if I was to have knapped this would bias my judgment on all matters knapping and almost then all matters stoneage -not sure whether is the same as your prior European colonisation contact. I possibly also noticed that this gave me a singular contrary view point with all those who have knapped. You cannot understand the acridity that I experienced as an archaeology student with my refusal to knap. It is a concern of mine that if you attempt to knap in the envelope of "experimental archaeology" for any passing fancy that this could imprint prejudices in the investigators brain- a potential form of biomachanical imprinting/brain washing- a form of colonisation. I believe that in ethoarchaeology there is some discussion as to whether you should "sleep" with the society understudy, I think that the same caution should be taken with all matters knapping. I might extend this caution to ethnarchaeology. For too long now our almost singular insight into the vast majority human experience is through so called stone tools I think has been blighted by investigators who have ?tried a bit of knapping? as if this was the singular path to enlightenment. Heres a current example
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0013718
Seems to me that they measured the brain waves of the same ?a specialist craftsman? who happened to be a specialist in producing flakes as well as hand axes! and found that they sorry I cant go on, feel free to rip it to bits -you could direct any questions to this expert a
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/a.faisal
Do you knap?
All I can think of at the moment is that I have never knapped -i presume that you refer to striking concoildial fracturing materials rather than snoozing- on an original principle of mine that if I was to have knapped this would bias my judgment on all matters knapping and almost then all matters stoneage -not sure whether is the same as your prior European colonisation contact. I possibly also noticed that this gave me a singular contrary view point with all those who have knapped. You cannot understand the acridity that I experienced as an archaeology student with my refusal to knap. It is a concern of mine that if you attempt to knap in the envelope of "experimental archaeology" for any passing fancy that this could imprint prejudices in the investigators brain- a potential form of biomachanical imprinting/brain washing- a form of colonisation. I believe that in ethoarchaeology there is some discussion as to whether you should "sleep" with the society understudy, I think that the same caution should be taken with all matters knapping. I might extend this caution to ethnarchaeology. For too long now our almost singular insight into the vast majority human experience is through so called stone tools I think has been blighted by investigators who have ?tried a bit of knapping? as if this was the singular path to enlightenment. Heres a current example
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0013718
Seems to me that they measured the brain waves of the same ?a specialist craftsman? who happened to be a specialist in producing flakes as well as hand axes! and found that they sorry I cant go on, feel free to rip it to bits -you could direct any questions to this expert a
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/a.faisal
Do you knap?
Reason: your past is my past