Please disregard my last post. Was meant for a colleague.

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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ron
May
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 9:52 PM
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Subject: Re: dismiss folklore as fantasy

About two or three years ago, someone sent me a news article about a
local  
community in England that rose up in arms over a proposed bulldozing of
a  
natural rock pile. The bulldozer operator worked for a real estate
developer and  
both were shocked to find several dozen really angry senior and elderly
people 
 standing in front of the dozer. At issue was a deeply ingrained and
ancient  
belief that fairies live in and around the boulders. In the end, the 
developer  backed-off and directed the bulldozer to leave the site. Now
this plays 
back to  Laurie Burgess' comment on how historical archaeologists react
to things 
like  shoe concealments in fireplace chimneys. American archaeologists
seem 
capable of  accepting that a Chumash native can believe that spirits
roam the 
earth and are  more sensitive in some seasons than another, but
completely deny 
that British or  European Americans are capable of belief in things like

fairies. I find that  just amazing, even for archaeologists who do not
come from 
anthropology  programs.
 
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.



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