[Stones] scholarship

[Ric]

find i can't really take this 'self awareness' theory, ipso facto, seriously. scientifically, homo sapiens has not altered significantly since the Old Stone Age, and we are all of this species. i especially love the Palaeolithic cave painting in France; if we were safely allowed in Lascaux, i should go. i have my own pet theories on what this art 'means', but haven't the faintest idea what the - for example - non-representational 'claviform', and other abstract symbolism means - some of which looks quite sinister to me; whereas the animal forms are a delight to the eye, i find. Britain now has its own (identified) parietal art - Creswell Crags - can't wait to see this :)
 
http://zinken.typepad.com/palaeo/images/ArtChurchHole-1.jpg

 
Ric


 

--- On Tue, 17/6/08, Ric <megalith6 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

From: Ric <megalith6 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [Stones] scholarship
To: "The Stones Mailing List" <stones at stoneslist.org.uk>
Date: Tuesday, 17 June, 2008, 11:35 PM







--- 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
 

 





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