Re: Jumping to Mehrgarh as at least a farming village if not a pre-Flood city

On Jul 17, 3:31 am, "Peter Alaca" <p.al...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Carl <pchristain...@xxxxxxxxx > wrote:
On Jul 16, 5:35 pm, "Peter Alaca" <p.al...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Carl <pchristain...@xxxxxxxxx > wrote:
On Jul 16, 4:32 pm, Doug Weller <dwel...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:10:29 +0200, in sci.archaeology, Peter Alaca
wrote:
Carl <pchristain...@xxxxxxxxx > wrote:

On Jul 16, 2:19 pm, Doug Weller
<dwel...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:25:38 -0600, in sci.archaeology, Tedd
Jacobs wrote:

"Peter Alaca" wrote...
Carl <pchristain...@xxxxxxxxx > wrote:

Absolutely not. The stakes are so extremely high that I will
move heaven and earth to encourage interested sci.archers
to study Han*** as the primary source for this thread and
not any representations of mine about Han***.

What are that extremely high stakes?

and why does he think there are interested sci.archers?

And why doesn't he take Eric's comment about Han*** seriously?

Han*** is a journalist. He isn't an archaeologist, and there
is no need to show over and over again his inadequacies and
mistakes. ...

You are overlooking completely the importance of the
Frawley/Han*** thesis,
which is outlined for many chapters in Han***'s book
"Underworld..."

I care about the argument itself; how strong is it? Can anyone
point out
weaknesses, specifically? And so forth.

Also, the focus shifts to the millennia before Mehrgarh was
founded. This is somewhat outside archaeology per se because it
involves
the melting of glacial lakes in the Himalayas.

Why was Mehrgarh founded?

"The mystery of whoexactly it was who founded Mehrgarh therefore
remains unsolved to this day, and the whole issue has been
somewhat neglected - perhaps because of its potential to cause
controversy. Scholars also continue to have no idea as to what
it was that brought the settlers to Mehrgarh in the first place,
though they seem to have arrived with a definite plan and
purpose in mind. Last but not least, we
should not draw conclusions about the state of mental and
intellectual development of the first inhabitants from the rather
simple and austere
nature of their homes, their tools and their lifestyle. This
'archaeological
assemblage' is consistent with the orthodox historical model of
how people at the threshold of sedentarized food production
should have looked and behaved when they set up their first
permanent settlements.
But Mehrgarh is also consistent with another model - the model
that is suggested in the Rig Veda of a society established by
yogic sages to meet
simple needs with great efficiency, but showing no interest in
material
luxuries or excesses that might lure humans away from the pursuit
of spiritual enlightenment and the immortal destiny of the soul."
Han***, p. 180

Let's be intellectually honest, Doug.

Let's be interlectual Mr. Christainsen

His response is bizarre. I never said Han*** couldn't write, but
he is still basically the journalist he was when he wrote better
books that had nothing to do with archaeology. He is not an
archaeologist and doesn't claim to be one. He is a journalist with
an excellent command of the tools of that trade. He has no respect
among archaeologists, and Carl seems more and more to be intent on
proving that he (Carl) has no respect for archaeology.
Doug
...
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A Director and Moderator of The Hall of
Ma'athttp://www.hallofmaat.comDoug'sArchaeology
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Instead of the traditional mind-reading over the Internet, please
ask yourself
whether what Han*** is saying is the truth.

I don't really care what Han*** is, be he journalist or worse - is
his argument the truth (Mehrgarh) ?
No
What are your credentials, sir? Do you know anything?

There it is again. Conditions. Afterwards

You are strangely laconic here.

You don't know me.

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I suggest you get on track and watch carefully the dialogue between
me, Eric, and Tom
from this point forward on Mehrgarh in order to learn from it.

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