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Without wishing in the slightest to offend my American friends it is an unfortunate fact that here in the UK few concern themselves as to whether Clovis was first second or last! To most archaeologist it's as though the new world doesn't exist.
There must be dozens of books on the Roman empire for every one about America.
How WA first got interested in pre-Colombian cultures is a mystery to me as even after fifty years I know virtually nothing about the area and I have seen only one book on the subject, Von Daniken's!


Roy.

Digit wrote:Without wishing in the slightest to offend my American friends it is an unfortunate fact that here in the UK few concern themselves as to whether Clovis was first second or last! To most archaeologist it's as though the new world doesn't exist.

What's that you say, Dig ... there's a New World?

I expect they're just a bunch of johnny upstarts!

Of course, what else would expect from ex-colonials?

Roy.

Nyah...nyah.... you guys lost. Get over it!

Minimalist wrote: Maybe they need to adopt new text books that weren't written by the old warhorses?

'cept those runnings the universities are often cheerleaders for the old warhorses. It just makes me scratch my head that educational institutions are slow to change. It makes no sense to me. That is why i will likely be into my 40's before i finish a bachelor's degree. Universities are just big corporations and most of those working for them (even the ones younger than me) seem to rather not rock the boat that their careers are riding in.

i keep thinking that i have the discipline to just jump through the hoops and get it finished, but they hurt my brain.

As some very smart person once noted: Science advances one funeral at a time.

Hmmm, sounds alot like politics

Digit wrote: How WA first got interested in pre-Colombian cultures is a mystery to me...

I might as well come clean. It's all thanks to Doctor Who.

dannan14 wrote:Hmmm, sounds alot like politics

It is politics.....except that politics never advances.