4th November 2010, 01:06 PM
Quote:[SIZE=3]In the Uk we are of course we don't have these issues (unless you count the druids) OR do we?How about “Ecclesiastical” archaeology or is it “ecumenical archaeology” we have a whole heap of legal anomalies that affect archaeology in this civil service state, burial grounds, respect of the dead, faculties, Cathedral archaeologists.
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Possibly where the uk academics archaeologists are missing a trick and might take a lead from their ozzie look a likes is that they should take their students off to do ethnology of bishops, nuns monks and vicars-there are I believe still a few of these indigenous communities left in obscure remote places like churches glebe land granges of britain and ireland and that other place. Not sure that we would then teach the bishops, nuns monks and vicars to do eclesicstyal archaeology but following diggers lead
Quote:[SIZE=3]In Australia you can actually watch people using traditions that have been passed down each generation for at least the last 40,000 years.I am not sure that we should take those traits like the body and blood of Christ and make claims that we were witnessing activities passed down through the generations from the earliest time that we had evidence of human habitation in Britain…..although I am sure that it happened
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Reason: your past is my past