2nd February 2012, 06:47 PM
Oxbeast Wrote:BTW, those guidelines say say 'take account of', and 'acknowledge and recognise', not 'allocate your resources wherever interested people tell you to'.Not that you have to comply entirely with what "interested people" tell you you to do, but don't they have the right to make an input, and not be summarily disenfranchised by being labelled loons, cranks, crackpots, or any other inventive derogatory terms designed to set them apart just because they have a different opinion?
Frankly, I am amazed at who falls under these terms, according to this forum. We've had beliefs including various religions, lifestyle and lack of higher educational background, astrology, astroarchaeology, people unwilling to accept current academic theories as gospel and practitioners of alternative medicine. How long before you include certain races, gender or height or hair colour. This thread is very enlightening and says more about the attitude of the archaeologist of today than it does about pseudo archaeologists. I've thought of a new motto
Archaeology for Shame!