Love Neolithic Style or Eros Rigor Mortis

[flippyshark]

Originally Posted by 3894

I really don't like archaeologists. Really don't.

Leave the grave the *bleep* alone.

You don't like any of them? Or would you prefer they just left human remains alone but continued to excavate the other areas of ancient sites?

I can understand the sensitivity, since, in our own time, defiling a grave is taboo. But, I also think it's extraordinarily important that we learn all we can about who we are and how we got here.

In my own view, the people themselves are long past caring about it, and if the society that buried them 6000 years ago has vanished, I don't see it as much of a violation. This is how ancient people go from complete obscurity to being newly talked about, understood and celebrated.

If thousands of years from now, someone unearths my bones and examines my belongings, and thereby gains new understanding, I am totally cool with that. I just hope they don't conclude from my own example that 21st century society was a shark-worshpping cult.