See? Archaeology is science, after all. How do we know? Because even a short discussion with a practitioner of physics, chemistry, astronomy, yada yada, will yield similar stories. At least one moral: scientists are humans, and, for all our protestations to the contrary, we all develop personal, vested (or so we perceive) interests in, not only our research results, but our paradigms as well. Paradigms die hard, brothers and sisters. Does that make us villanous?
Jeffrey L. Boyer, RPA
Office of Archaeological Studies
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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY on behalf of Ron May
Sent: Fri 9/23/2005 10:18 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: da vinci code & archaeology
There is certainly precedent for believing people in academic archaeology use
their powers to suppress certain lines of information. I know of one
archaeologist in the Southwest who discovered a certain type of artifact in a famous
canyon in Arizona and was forced in his thesis project to delete any mention of
the discovery and then, through employment, forced to further suppress the
information in the press. On an even grander scale are those geo-archaeologists
who used their position and power to suppress any discoveries that might
refute a pre-Clovis argument. You all know their names, famous people who came out
in the popular news media pooh-poohing discoveries up through the early 1980s.
As these academic atrocities became public, it is no wonder fiction authors
pick up the thread in books such as the Da Vinci Code.
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.
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