15th March 2011, 03:48 AM
Optimus Trowel Wrote:And yes, always sad when the archaeology/archaeologists get caught up in local politics (though I do remember a theory lecture once where they claimed that all archaeology is politics, but I digress) and used with an ulterior motive.
Sorting through an archive of old brain cells, I can remember my induction by Bruce Trigger (A History of Archaeological Thought) to the manipulation of "culture"...
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