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What it means (IMO)...is what I always say..."ask 12 archys, and you get
11 different answers" (at least). And many of these with certainty.
But, we can't all be Right...can we? :o)
(of course, this 'axiom' applies more so with discussing prehistoric
artifacts; but it seems we got many varied replies to the machine ID
also)
>-----Original Message-----
>From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>Behalf Of Marty Pickands
>Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 7:53 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Machine Part ID?
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>Anthropologically, it seems to mean that archaeologists love to guess.
>That seems to be our role in society, but it's something we
>have to be careful about. As a master blacksmith once told me,
>"It seems to me that archaeologists make a lot of unwarranted
>assumptions." We have all had the experience of being dead
>sure of something that we later find to have been dead wrong!
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>>>> [log in to unmask] 10/06/06 3:21 AM >>>
>The saga of identifying this particular piece of metal debris
>has been fascinating, but what does it mean anthropologically?
>
>Morgan Rieder, PPA
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