31st January 2012, 05:42 PM
BAJR Wrote:ie... Bronze Age Phonecians went to America to collect copper.....
Do you have evidence for this? No, but I will find it.
Sorry... go away, come back and try again once you have something better than a dream guide told you or you have some belief in Michigan Tablets
You see this is the type of knee-jerk sarcastic put-down which often is used as a reply to so-called "cranks". 100% of theories hammered out in the battlefield of journals today have their origin in "beliefs", unless one is a nihilist. As a group I found archaeologists to be unbelievably narrow minded. We, because I am one, are created in an institution, that fosters the behaviour that, even if one does not have a viable hypothesis regarding the, say, migratory patterns of ancient cultures, it is perfectly acceptible to lower, debase and ridicule the opinions of others, others who through no fault of their own may not have had the wealth to attend an institution of "learning" but who might want to be a part of the current debate. In archaeologists' eyes these cranks are always hippies, free thinkers, radicals, lefties and gullible. No wonder archaeologists often seen as right wing, militaristic anal retentive and elitist. No kidding this was just some of the answers I received in a survey of 100 Irish, British and American archaeology students studying in Ireland in 2008. Academic discourse should consist of reasoned argument reasonably put and not the verbal equivalent of wet towel slappings! And as for being "torn apart by academic rigour" you were bitten by a hippy as a child weren't you?