Posted: Mar 06, 2016 7:08 pm
by Hobbes Choice
igorfrankensteen wrote:This is another in long line of subjects which we History types have observed for eons now (well, none of us are eons old, but you know what I mean), which aren't nearly as illuminating or thought provoking in and of themselves, than they are illuminating about the OBSERVERS WHO ARE ARGUING ABOUT THE OBSERVATIONS.

Among our Archaeologist brethren, for example, there is a joke that whenever something is found on a dig, which doesn't obviously relate to some well-known industry, or immediate sexual conquest, that it should be described as being 'religious' in nature.
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Oh contrare! Shit that is not explicable is "ritual deposition", which is more (um ) "objective".