1st February 2009, 10:43 PM
if i can put my two penneth in here:
Whilst I have no problem with the druids or their religious affiliation, they're making out that these dead are THEIR ancestors yet at the same time, EVERYONES. And surely, they can't know that?! If these bodies that they want reburied ARE everyones ancestors then surely everyone should have a say instead of them getting all funny over it. At least the bodies are being looked after and treated with respect. We have no right to rebury these prehistoric bodies using religious rituals or whatever, when we cannot know what religion these people were! It just seems stupid to me.
And, the argument I gave in a discussion over this in my later prehistoric wessex class:
They're MY ancestors too and I want to go and look at them in a museum! If I were a prehistoric person in a museum, instead of being reburied by a group of people who think they know best when clearly they don't, I'd be pretty danged proud that people were coming to look at me and learn about me!
Archaeology is just history with the gloves off
Whilst I have no problem with the druids or their religious affiliation, they're making out that these dead are THEIR ancestors yet at the same time, EVERYONES. And surely, they can't know that?! If these bodies that they want reburied ARE everyones ancestors then surely everyone should have a say instead of them getting all funny over it. At least the bodies are being looked after and treated with respect. We have no right to rebury these prehistoric bodies using religious rituals or whatever, when we cannot know what religion these people were! It just seems stupid to me.
And, the argument I gave in a discussion over this in my later prehistoric wessex class:
They're MY ancestors too and I want to go and look at them in a museum! If I were a prehistoric person in a museum, instead of being reburied by a group of people who think they know best when clearly they don't, I'd be pretty danged proud that people were coming to look at me and learn about me!
Archaeology is just history with the gloves off