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Crackpot index - ZSilvia - 28th March 2012
PeterM Wrote:5 points if the bloke showing you round the site claims to BE a Templar with access to secret records of the site, held on Malta (happened to me once!!)
a HEARTY lol!
Crackpot index - Jack - 28th March 2012
100 points for saying or quoting something along the lines of '...looking beyond the evidence.'
50 points for saying 'the cosmological model is now generally accepted...'
30 points for using ethnographical evidence to 'understand' how prehistoric people 'thought' or 'read the landscape'
+30 points if the above ethnographical evidence is African
+50 points if the above ethnographical evidence is Polynesian/Australian
+50 points if the above ethnographical evidence relates to a society with a different form of subsistence/ mobility to your prehistoric society.
1000 points for referencing Marija Gimbutas
Crackpot index - Dinosaur - 28th March 2012
50 points for each journal page based on interpreting two weathered scraps of pottery and a cow bone as a 'structured deposit'
Crackpot index - angi - 28th March 2012
10 points for claiming that the spirit of a dead maid is telling you where the kitchen used to be (plus 5 if you close your eyes and brush your forehead with your hand)
Crackpot index - P Prentice - 28th March 2012
1000 points for every time you have claimed a few bits of Neolithic pot in a few pits as evidence of Neolithic settlement
Crackpot index - CARTOON REALITY - 28th March 2012
10 points for sneering.
A smack on the bottom for telling fibs.
Crackpot index - kevin wooldridge - 28th March 2012
It's probably just me, but what is this thread actually about?
Crackpot index - BAJR - 28th March 2012
Nice and easy Kevin... there is a fine Crackpot index in Physics... what we need is one for Archaeology - one that any ideas can be subjected to (including ours) and scored.
people can then decide on empirical evidence, the level at which the theory becomes crackpot.
Simples
Crackpot index - Dinosaur - 28th March 2012
P Prentice Wrote:1000 points for every time you have claimed a few bits of Neolithic pot in a few pits as evidence of Neolithic settlement
Aha, someone else who's splashed out on Anderson-Whymark and Thomas (eds.) 2012! North Yorkshire should have one of the big squirly symbols on figure 15.1, don't want Norfolk/Cambridgeshire hogging all the limelight, if nothing else parts of Northern England are awash with Neo pits, even if there's not much in most of them
Crackpot index - Dinosaur - 28th March 2012
...actually I've just realised my personal project backlog puts me third in the neolithic pits county-by-county table, can I have 10,000 points please?
