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Reply 13 of 56 (Originally posted on: 03-05-07 12:30:05 PM)
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Quote: all the evidence available to you
Therein lies the flaw with the fields of anthropology and archaeology.
Evidence without context is not evidence at all. This context is what they glean from the writings of people who are all basically the equals of Sean Hannity or Ann Coulter. The reason for this is not because they woke up one day and said "Hey, I think I'll devote my life to confusing people with propaganda 2,000 years from now!", but because they have to write texts which appeal to the person who hired them and, ultimately, the society which they live in. If they don't, they will soon find themselves and their works in the epicenter of a huge book-burning parade with people like DJ running around naked with war paints!
With that, the "evidence", ancient terracotta, armor, weapons, villages, and cities, all fit in only because they were around when that scribe gave his particular view-point about the subject. In a thousand years from, when historians are pondering why the 03' Iraq war occurred, they will only have the opinions of a very, very limited library of works which survived the rest. And I'm sure that they will be looking forward to Ann Coulter's broadcast as much as we all have. 
It may be fun to sit down and wonder about ancient societies while arguing why some were better than others, but the fact is that we will only know one story, not the real story.
[q]He will be a minority as archaeological finds will dispute him.[/quote]
And that is assuming there are other works available which people in the future can base their theories off of. It doesn't matter if there isn't one single settlement in Antartica, if my opinion is the only one remaining, it is the one which wins.
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