Nice attempt at deflection, but Carver failed to cite Bill Maher as the 
source for his current political terminology. Tsk, tsk.

Rich Green

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From: "geoff carver" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: Obama Disarming America


> Here in Germany there is some reluctance to investigate WW2 sites 
> (bunkers,
> etc., associated with the West Wall; the battlefield in the Hürtgen, 
> etc.),
> in part because of the danger of associating with "amateur" groups that 
> can
> sometimes be a little "brown."
> Among the other complications in Cologne, there has been a tendency to try
> to bulldoze everything that isn't "Roman"; the situation surrounding the
> synagogue excavations is complicated to the extent that a potential 
> investor
> backed out of helping to fund a museum because it is intended to show the
> daily life of Jews in a medieval German city and their generally peaceful
> coexistence with Gentiles, rather than focusing specifically (as is the 
> case
> in so many other "Jewish museums") on ritual objects.
> Then, of course, there is open opposition to archaeology by
> investors/developers, and now the lack of a law forcing payment for rescue
> excavations...
> And the general lack of "theory" in German archaeology because of its
> "associations" with the racist archaeology of Kossina & his followers with
> the brown shirts...
>
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>
>
> Aside from broad generalities such as I mentioned, I am curious if there 
> are
> examples of current historic archaeological research altered in some way 
> by
> the political atmosphere of the last few years that anyone can provide? 
> Here
> I am thinking of the absence or reduction of cultural evolutionary models 
> in
> American archaeology during the somewhat elongated period (1917 to
> mid-1950s) of the Red Scare in America.