tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post1724963958671898197..comments2024-03-11T15:40:37.015+00:00Comments on Theoretical Structural Archaeology: The archaeology of the Imaginary SpacesGeoff Carterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01111820035762957610noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post-65161287348424261762014-05-26T08:34:13.985+01:002014-05-26T08:34:13.985+01:00this is a really well written article. i'll be...this is a really well written article. i'll be sure to bookmark it and return to read more of your useful information. Thanks for the post. keep it going and i'll keep coming back. <br /><br />www.n8fan.netdeceiverhttp://www.n8fan.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post-63887974950553792412014-04-08T20:20:45.762+01:002014-04-08T20:20:45.762+01:00Thank you for your comment; As I see it, the past ...Thank you for your comment; As I see it, the past has always been a place onto which we project our hopes and ideals, it is something we have lost. As in the Fall from grace / eden, ect.<br />It has traditionally been a source of military / imperial / political inspiration, [and justification]; more recently it has reflected our concerns with environmental issues. Thus our become ancestors were eco-warriors who held the earth sacred - the past is created to meet contemporary needs. <br />The many key figures in forming this narrative of archaeology, and selecting several generations of academics, are now in their 50s. . . Geoff Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01111820035762957610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post-15920352053967359102014-04-07T10:22:32.435+01:002014-04-07T10:22:32.435+01:00Having just seen an episode of this imaginative se...Having just seen an episode of this imaginative series on TV in New Zealand I wonder what is going on in the heads of people who like this sort of thing. They are too young to be hippies M E Embersonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post-73448257008157775222014-01-22T21:50:44.141+00:002014-01-22T21:50:44.141+00:00I reason that if Post processualism is free to ima...I reason that if Post processualism is free to imagine the past then I have imagined some evidence.<br />Yes it's finnish - I think I had some confused visitors from that part of the world!<br />I won't tell you all what message our primitive ancestors pecked out on the quartite - once you see it - you can't not see it, which is part of the illusion. <br /><br />I go back to Neil Oliver Striding through the Lake District looking like a latter day Romantic Poet, talking about the landscape in terms more reminiscent of Wordsworth & Co than anything we know about Prehistoric attitudes.<br />I agree that there is the danger of finding what you are looking for, and <br />projecting the zeitgeist into the past is inevitable to some extent, but we must not knowingly abandon empiricism because convenient. <br />A lot of this nonsense arises because we have no professional continuity, we squader our talent, enthusiasm, and experience . . . as you well know.Geoff Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01111820035762957610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post-65012625313563720022014-01-22T21:03:34.773+00:002014-01-22T21:03:34.773+00:00LOL at the duodecadally-lobed quadratic fig., pain...LOL at the duodecadally-lobed quadratic fig., painfully pecked out with lumps of quartzite by superstitious cringing savages, on the top of the "Finnish" (or Estonian or whatever) standing stone.<br /><br />I always thought of these "re-imaginings" of the utterly opaque mental processes of the prehistoric dead as more along the lines of a kind of Letter To Santa. <br />"Dear DigFairy, It would please me greatly if something I'm very fond of, and has and benefitted me and my mummy and daddy personally in the past, turns up in my stocking when I "review" the evidence.<br /> Because that means everything is all right with the world, and I can sleep soundly with ProcessTeddy knowing it's all going to stay *just the way it should be*, nice and comfy. Thanks"dustbubblenoreply@blogger.com