[Stones] scholarship

[Ric]

--- On Fri, 13/6/08, ewc <ewc at onetel.net> wrote:

I think it was in 'Death, identity and the body in Neolithic Britain'
where 
JT advanced three separate matters I had trouble with

1) His notion that the move from communal to individual burial at the end of 
the British Neolithic was evidence for the (psychological) development of 
individual awareness - writing as if he had substantive evidence that 
Neolithic man was somehow not self aware - when he has none

2) His notion that heightened self awareness is particular to modern Western 
cultures, and was/(is?) lacking in the orient. This showed a gross ignorance 
of oriental history imo.
 
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1 ] i have always thought the move away from long barrows to round barrows indicates a move away from a sense of community (ancestors), towards a sense of clans (chiefs), which is just my theory, and i cannot prove it
 
2] JT awards Lao Tse no sense of heightened self-awareness? 
 
http://www.iging.com/laotse/LaotseE.htm
 
Ric



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