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25th November 2005, 12:05 PM
So would it not be better for us to counter this twaddle and try to inform people about archaeology and we really do, and don't, know about our predecessors?
We owe the dead nothing but the truth.
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25th November 2005, 01:28 PM
I think there is enough interest in UFOlogy to justify working on it from a sensible scientific basis. As archaeologists we could give a valuable contribution to any work, along with other scientists, that attempts to explain features and sightings. If the subject was dealt with more professionally then we could see if anything can not be explained, rather than blindly saying "Rubbish" and ignoring it. As the original poster points out, some things are merely misinterpretations (e.g. crop marks). However until the subject is dealt with properly then there will always be this misinterpretation and the subject will never be more than a joke in many peoples minds.
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25th November 2005, 01:31 PM
what is it with archaeologists and SCI-fi are we a bunch of geeks or something we are only second in the geek stakes to engineering students who are the kings of geekyness....
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25th November 2005, 01:41 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by trowelhead
what is it with archaeologists and SCI-fi are we a bunch of geeks or something we are only second in the geek stakes to engineering students who are the kings of geekyness....
Thats not fair, what about computing students!
Besides I've always thought that geekiness is in derect proportion to inteligence
maybe it's just me trying to justify it
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25th November 2005, 03:13 PM
Don't know about levels of geekiness, but it probably does say something about whether ones parents should have let you out on your own!!
My wife was appearing in an opera for a music company who just happened to hire their costumes from the BBC. An archaeological colleague of ours was also in the audience. After the show we met up for a drink and asked him if he had liked the performance of a relatively obscure Boismortier opera, Don Quixote. He said he had like the character playing the Don and then asked where he had got his conquistador style helmet. Hanne said from the BBC, to which he replied 'I thought so. It is infact the same helmet as worn by ... in episode 3 of the 'The .....', a Doctor Who episode from 1974'
When next in the theatre Hanne checked the label inside the said helmet and he was right!! It had been used in Dr Who.
I am sure his skills of instant recognition, interpretation and dating have served him well in his subsequent archaeological career. That's not geekiness that's natural aptitude!!
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25th November 2005, 04:23 PM
DOCTOR WHO!!! Thats at the very sharp end of geekyness and puts the rest of sci-fi in the shade.. Doctor HOO maybe, an Anglo Saxon version might lighten things up. Doctor Who ... Doctor Who... Doctor watched by blokes with no girl friends thats Who
