Posted on 05/17/2018 1:17:07 PM PDT by Gamecock
‘Motel of the Mysteries’
I read that book years ago! What a hoot! But then, when I was at Mesa Verde, a woman ranger showed us how they TRY to interpret things. She used a modern plastic “thing” to show us how the future might interpret it.
What is this? Possibly an ear clasp? What would you use it for in a different culture? (It was a square plastic piece used to close bread wrappers.)
She’s Pretty....Vacuous
Actually, yes & no.
Wrong host, right prompt.
Archaeologists have been touting their version of history for over a century, a form of professional persecution most of us here are accustomed to seeing in climate sciences.
I provide the preeminent example (one of many): Zahi Hawass.
Modern times: would-be documentary-maker boasts of her utter ignorance as a ‘virtue’ that affords her some sort of special insights.
Will viewers be watching with the volume off?
When the children are misbehaving, my husband puts on Ancient Aliens and we run commentary LOL.
Hey - without archaeology, we wouldn’t have the “Ancient Aliens” shows....I think Megan Fox is.......an alien!
You’re joking..
Of course ..
“big tits and mysticism will not get us close to the truth of the human story.”
No, but it might be fun while we are failing to get there!
Is "faze" correct in this instance? I think it is funny when people mock other people for being dumb but make grammatical errors in the process.
Yeah, she got the show because she's highly intelligent, not because she's hot in the same way a high-priced NY call girl is hot.
Okay, so, it's really about sour grapes because I don't have a show like this. Thanks Gamecock.
"The series will delve into some of the greatest mysteries of time, including whether Amazon women really existed or if the Trojan War was real," the press release continues.
The answers? No, and yes..
Good catch, and great retort.
Faze has been in dictionaries since 1830.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/faze
She’s right.
Archeologists know all about pots and glaze and squiggles and lines and such, That’s mostly what they care about. Absent the arcanery of pots, history is not something they really care about.
Now Stephen Lekson...... there’s an archeologist that knows his history.
"To me, this clearly shows she has embraced the idea that professional archaeologists are too narrow-minded to see the truth," David S. Anderson, an archaeologist
Egghead says "I think it shows that she thinks this", and the journalism major writes the headline, "Megan Fox Thinks this".
Thanks, I did learn something on this thread.
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