No, it has more to do with boredom, although your statement is clever. I'm not the least bit uneasy about your work: whatever floats your boat. I've encountered so many conflicting legends about the Lost Tribes I confess to tuning such discussions out for the most part, although I've read a few things recently about possible Lost Tribe connections in India and South Africa that appear to be more scientifically based than most. But I promise to read your material as objectively as possible.
As for your comment: However, 'science' is not the bastion of purity and objective honesty that some would like to believe. It is intensely political, that was the precise point of my post. While politics always plays a major role in human affairs, I believe the political games of the past 50 years have been extraordinary (but certainly not unique). The East/West polarization since about 1941 has been intense, and the post-war impact of Marxism on academic thought has been frightening. They've both had a huge negative impact on archaeology, and have led to a continuing emphasis on archaeology of the Mediterranean instead of worldwide considerations, which was the point I was originally responding to.
No one could ask for more than that. {ggg}.
>... the post-war impact of Marxism on academic thought has been frightening ... had a huge negative impact on archaeology ...and led to a continuing emphasis on archaeology of the Mediterranean instead of worldwide considerations.
An interesting point. I believe Blam and others would share your apparent enthusiasm for a more global perspective.
I marvel at the academic (religious) interest of only 200 years causing intense focus on the Mediterranean. Without that religious yearning for truth, not only would Americas great educational institutions (of virtually every founding denomination) not exist, but such other assets as the Oriental Institute would not exist either. (That many have subsequently become diverted is another matter...)
It is unfortunate so few appreciate the true roots of that science we call Archeology, it's genesis being intense interest in the Israelites, and that interest almost entirely by those who did not realize (initially or publicly at least) that they were Israelites as well; the presumeably "Lost" Israelites.