Re: Bad Archaeology


"J.LyonLayden" <JosephLayden@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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On Sep 6, 10:54 am, "Michael Kuettner" <mik...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On Sep 4, 2:11 pm, "Michael Kuettner" <mik...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
"J.LyonLayden" <JosephLay...@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb im
Well, the 12000 years are only for the dated stratas. They haven't reached
the bottom yet (I suspect that the beginnings are a few ky earlier).
Re. Dolni Vestonice : What do you mean by "decent" ?

You know, something that doesn't look to primitive. A little more
substancial than a circle of bricks and a thatched hut.

Any cool slightly altered caves or Paleolithic Dolmens, or stacked
together stone building remains?

A tower like at Jericho circa 27000 ybp might get me Harry Potter
bucks, you see what I'm sayin'?

I'm afraid that there's no such structure.
You'll have to use analogies.
Take the Mongols (nomads) and their capital, Karakorum.
That way you can postulate that nomads 27000 ybp did the same.
Let the structure be erected from sun-dried bricks.
Place it under a huge mountain-lake. Add earthquake, lake flushes on
structures -
voila, no traces.

Cheers,


Kool thanks.
Would that be ok with guys like McDonald and Weller? Or would my book
be dismissed as rubbish like the later Jean Aule books were for having
isolated "false start" instances of animal domestication?


You seem to have misunderstood something.
Jean Aule is only dismissed as rubbish when those books are claimed to be
scientific.
Well, they aren't. Sometimes the narrative is closer to scientific reality,
sometimes
it strays far from it. That's the way of fiction.
But that's no reason to not read them or call them "rubbish" .
I like Terry Pratchett; he doesn't write scientific books either.

Your book will be fiction, too. You'll write it to entertain people.
Just don't state things in the preface like "This book is researched with utmost
care
and represents the state of scientific knowledge."
If you write : "I've taken historical and archaeological facts, mixed them and
projected them in a time far before now. Enjoy !", nobody will call the book
rubbish.

Cheers,

Michael Kuettner







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