[Stones] scholarship

[Thelma Wilcox]

My posts here are really put up to ask the question - are there others out 
there disturbed by these developments? To me they seem little better than a 
form of charlatanry - and to judge from my conversations with modern 
undergraduates, the deceptions, perpetrated by an academic elite - have been 
depressingly successful
 
Can never answer on this list without my messages going into horizontal nightmares.... but to answer your question, a definite yes, “Understanding the Neolithic” by Julian Thomas made me think I would never buy another book in the same vein again.  Phenomenology is a discipline that should not be applied to archaeology, it takes it into the realms of a diffuse fuzziness that leads away from the direct truth, okay truth is subjective, but archaeology does best when it sticks to ground rules.  Interpretation was always the last bit of the report in the old days; what we see today is publicity seeking at ‘iconic’ sites. Academic ‘elite’ have books to write and jobs to hold onto but in using other disciplines they should remember they are educating the next layer of archaeologists, and no I’m not keen on MPP either ;).
 
Thelma 


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