[Stones] scholarship

[ewc]

Hi 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>>

Good to find we agree on this!

Here is a jokey comment adapted from Isaiah Berlin that seems relevant -

'There are exactly 279 different kinds of human beings.   I am damned if I can figure out what goes on in the heads of the other 278 kinds.  But all the same - I recognise them as human'

best

rob

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ric 
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  Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 11:27 PM
  Subject: Re: [Stones] scholarship


        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.



                ..............................





                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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