What an excellent article!
The Future is locked Within the Past
http://www.heritagedaily.com/2012/11/th ... -the-past/
Makes me wish we'd written something like that!
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The future is locked within the past...
Re: The future is locked within the past...
Agreed. This was a great line for us -
"Pre-history is in danger of being drowned out by the more colorful and more bombastic visual archaeology that is provided by its Roman and Medieval counterparts. There is far more scope in pre-history, as this is where an identity Britain can be proud of may emerge."
Wonder if we could get him to write something for us, preferably on that theme?
"Pre-history is in danger of being drowned out by the more colorful and more bombastic visual archaeology that is provided by its Roman and Medieval counterparts. There is far more scope in pre-history, as this is where an identity Britain can be proud of may emerge."
Wonder if we could get him to write something for us, preferably on that theme?
Re: The future is locked within the past...
Whilst it is encouraging to see archaeology being so passionately defended by a practitioner enthusiast...
Archaeology “ensures that the narrative of human history, all of its lessons, all of its woes and wares, are kept within our consciousness” … “what history tends to do is conscript interesting lifestyles to serve a plot laid out by informed imagination. It focuses on the tall, the mighty, it serves to trivially pursue the intricate minority of the broad brush stroke that is the past.”
Hmmmm....
Archaeology “ensures that the narrative of human history, all of its lessons, all of its woes and wares, are kept within our consciousness” … “what history tends to do is conscript interesting lifestyles to serve a plot laid out by informed imagination. It focuses on the tall, the mighty, it serves to trivially pursue the intricate minority of the broad brush stroke that is the past.”
Hmmmm....