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MikeWaters · 04-30-2008, 03:31 AM

you are saying that archaeology, kind of like literary criticism, is an argument.

You find poo in a cave. It has evidence of a lot of fish being eaten. So they conclude that people of this probably ate lots of fish.

That's a reasonable conclusion. Unless it's that just these few people liked fish, and everyone else ate hamburgers.

Can you imagine excavating my house 1000 years from now? I wonder what the conclusions would be.

04-30-2008, 03:31 AM	#22
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	you are saying that archaeology, kind of like literary criticism, is an argument. You find poo in a cave. It has evidence of a lot of fish being eaten. So they conclude that people of this probably ate lots of fish. That's a reasonable conclusion. Unless it's that just these few people liked fish, and everyone else ate hamburgers. Can you imagine excavating my house 1000 years from now? I wonder what the conclusions would be.