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22nd March 2011, 05:18 PM
This just went up. Not sure on the accuracy. If it is true, whether you agree with him or not, he was still a hell of an archaeologists.
http://dougsarchaeology.wordpress.com/20...-a-legend/
With the amount of people that knew him or of him. Probably best to wait and see if the family wants to be contacted or not.
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22nd March 2011, 10:15 PM
I remember Lewis Binford from my early years as an undergrad. I often wondered if K. Flannery had him in mind as the old timer in
http://plaza.ufl.edu/akathy/%281982%29%2...lltown.pdf
As you rightly said, like his ideas or not, they left a mark on archaoeology.
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23rd March 2011, 03:27 PM
Supposedly, the old-timer is modelled off of someone else. Binford probably fits in-between the old-timer and child of the sixties a little bit of both and nether.
I guess we'll never know for sure though
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12th April 2011, 04:25 PM
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12th April 2011, 06:24 PM
A very sad day for archaeology.
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13th April 2011, 07:28 AM
To my mind Binford's legacy is that he was one of the contributors to the train of thought in archaeology that enabled many of us to feel comfortable inside our own skins and not to have to adopt the stereotype/attitudes of earlier generations of archaeologists.
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For all of those regular Guardian reading archaeologists out there, the
Torygraph ran an obituary of Lewis Binford yesterday.
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A tremor in the Force. The last time I felt it was in the presence of Tony Robinson.
