Archaeology from the Interzone:

[BAJR]

Archaeology from the Interzone: Applications of the Burroughs-Gysin cut upmethod to problems in the Neolithic of Britain and Ireland

http://www.scribd.com/doc/104708305/Arch...-Interzone

Shorting though provoking article - needs a couple of reads to understand some of the more convoluted concepts...

But very much worth the read.

[Dinosaur]

Interesting...if only cos I've got a couple of useful refs from it :face-approve:

[Jack]

Interesting in the world of fiction.............fascinating in the sense of studying the mindset of modern humans.

But I'd say (in my humble opinion) yet another silly construct of the modern mind pretending to transcend our biases.
What next, recording how pottery sherds taste? Or recording the shadows cast by flint scatters under the solstice moonlight. :face-stir:

Its all ifs, maybes and could have beens.......assumptions balanced on assumptions.

Why oh why isn't it enough to interrogate the evidence? There is plenty of this left to do. From more dating, Residue analysis, thin-sectioning, micro-wear analysis, depositional and taphonomical experiments, even forensic burn analysis..etc etc.....

Why do we feel the need to invent more possible interpretations whilst ignoring the hard graft ahead of us.

Are we just mad apes who's brains are too big.........

Is it time to publish my theories on the great egg worshiping purple dragon culture? What about faery resonance healing analysis?

grrrrrrrr!

[P Prentice]

quite like it as an exercise in thinking outside the box and it made me wonder what permutations a computer could make. we cant divorce ourselves from thousands of years of social evolution but that shouldnt stop us from asking questions from myriad perspectives
@ jack - your dry world dosent quench some of our thirst and never will. it is perfectly reasonable to use philosophical approaches. your way is still to fllable to be a time machine

[Wax]

Looks like another way of tapping into the (modern) subconscious mind (cheaper than drugs or alcohol) but still on par with the Ouija board or automatic writing. like PP I wonder what a true random selection done by a computer would come up with. Someone once explained to me that the human mind when asked to produce a random selection actually does the opposite. If asked to fill a square on paper with random dots people dustribute the dots evenly over the square where as if the dots are generated truely randomly they will be grouped in clumps with spaces between them and may even appear to make patterns to the human eye. We are desperate to make patterns and sense when there is none.

Ps I have been known to taste pottery to identify it

[CARTOON REALITY]

Ps I have been known to taste pottery to identify it

Ham Green tastes like rancid pork.

[Unitof1]

I have just tried it and this sentance seems to have come out fine. Definatly the only method used on all BA archaeology courses. Most notable when trying to chase references and finding that the reference seems to have only a dubious connection with the subject. I have always suspected that it was the result of memmorising bibliographic references for exam purposes colliding with exam questions asking for some critical evaluation of chalk and cheese. I would name somebody like Mike parker pearson as particularly reliant in the method but scrattle me frog wollop. Looks like I have returned to normal.

[BAJR]

Damn... just when you were starting to make coherent sense!
Back to the Inter-zone with you

[Jack]

I guess I shouldn't knock it till I try it........

"out of to think that such insights the individuals own they have no past evidence. I disagree that drug addled is the box. Mad rantings of the way of thinking is merely trying box agree. A valid it out of your although, I say a lot about internal workings relevant to."

Yeah, really useful.:face-huh: