22nd December 2005, 12:04 AM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by troll
John-there is no such thing as a concensus of opinion in archaeology.
[:0]......All those years of reading books and watching Time Team, etc wasted.......
Explains quite a lot actually. If there is no consensus, how then are the published reports of a dig consolidated? If a paper is published with several authors, surely they must have agreed on the conclusions reached (eventually..). Someone told me once that you could put 300 archaeologists in a room with an object,and by the end of the day you'd have 300 different theories..I now understand what was meant....nothing unusual there though, as the same would probably happen if they were detectorists. So I take it from this that any 'school of thought' on a subject is usually only the theory of an individual, or even a few people, but not archaeology in general?