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charamei ([personal profile] charamei) wrote in [community profile] archaeology 2010-11-09 03:52 pm (UTC)

Fascinating indeed! Bogmen are brilliant, especially as we become more able to preserve them after digging them up.

Are there any pictures of the reconstructions available, or do we have to wait until after the conference?

That's incredible, they look like us". Yes Sir, yes. They do.

It's amazing how many people utterly fail to realise that our ancestors were just as human as we are. You should have seen the look on my cousin's face when I told him about an Athenian lawcourt speech whose speaker basically says 'Well, I didn't actually read the contract...' and continues to try to convince everyone that what happened next wasn't his fault.

It's an -ism, definitely; it's recognisably the same set of thought pattersn as racism, but directed against the past. Ancestorism?

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