23rd November 2011, 01:44 PM
I refer to my previous comment - God I hate archaeologists.
They couldn't just say, hey look we've found some grafitti left by the Sex Pistols, that's quite interesting isn't it? No they had to make comparisons to prehistoric cave paintings/to art treasures/to upsetting the establishment/sticking their tongues out. Well, done, you had to over-egg it didn't you? Any chance the authors of the Antiquity article are of an age to remember when punk first happened and are feeling slightly sad that the excitment of their youth is now over? Perhaps a law should be passed so that all articles of an archaeological nature have to be under 1000 words, to prevent them decending into drivel. It isn't even academic debate, it's just going out to cause a fuss, a bit like Punk.
They couldn't just say, hey look we've found some grafitti left by the Sex Pistols, that's quite interesting isn't it? No they had to make comparisons to prehistoric cave paintings/to art treasures/to upsetting the establishment/sticking their tongues out. Well, done, you had to over-egg it didn't you? Any chance the authors of the Antiquity article are of an age to remember when punk first happened and are feeling slightly sad that the excitment of their youth is now over? Perhaps a law should be passed so that all articles of an archaeological nature have to be under 1000 words, to prevent them decending into drivel. It isn't even academic debate, it's just going out to cause a fuss, a bit like Punk.