[SunkenCiv]

:') What he's actually saying is, that just digging up a bunch of artifacts isn't (by itself) archaeology. But that is the only way evidence is uncovered. Going to the library doesn't work without the digging first. Bass' point should be, there's too much specialization (actually compartmentalization). Had there not been, Bass would himself have been familiar with the various kinds of wrecks he might encounter. Of course the Cape Gelidonya wreck is from quite a while back...

[Little Bill]

My argument is: evidence of what? Wood working technique is is not terribly unique across time, nor is boat building technique, similar problems have similar solutions. For example, the Viking sewed their boats together, so did the Egyptians, the difference the Vikings had bigger trees to work with, the actual shaping of the strakes wasn't all that different.

One of the reasons that I posted that stuff on the Minoans is that people think that our ancestors were different in some magical way. I think not. For example: I was at a dinner with an Archaeologist one time and he was talking about a Temple(?) and extrapolated all kind of stuff from his finds.

I Asked him if he might of misinterpreted his find as a temple could it not be a Bronze age VFW, lots of wine bottles and evidence of barbecued bones. On the evidence my argent was as valid as his, he guessed, I guessed.