23rd November 2011, 03:47 PM
beamo Wrote:'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?'
RedEarth - as someone who was at university in the early 1980s alongside John Schofield and Paul Graves-Brown I can confirm the first part of your question. The second part remains outside of my knowledge and will remain thus.
Beamo
I did wonder. My concern is really that they seem to have deliberately set themselves up to be shot down, and in doing so potentially make archaeologists and archaeology look a bit foolish. But, like I say, I haven't read the article in Antiquity although I would like to.