Love Neolithic Style or Eros Rigor Mortis

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Originally Posted by flippyshark

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.

You're cool with it but betcha the neolithic peoples wouldn't have been. We do not need to disrupt their graves.

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by 3894

You're cool with it but betcha the neolithic peoples wouldn't have been.

But how do we know that? Aren't we really just projecting our own feelings onto what we think the neolithic people though?

[3894]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

But how do we know that? Aren't we really just projecting our own feelings onto what we think the neolithic people though?

We'd have to see the grave itself - it's location and setup to know. My guess is that since we're just finding it now, it was pretty well hidden away.

Let's talk about the imposition of one culture on another. In this thread, we have references to Romeo and Juliet, Aida, the Simpsons' bones of an angel, Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton, and Pompei. We all see others through our own optic.

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by 3894

Let's talk about the imposition of one culture on another. In this thread, we have references to Romeo and Juliet, Aida, the Simpsons' bones of an angel, Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton, and Pompei. We all see others through our own optic.

Which to my mind is evidence that "culture" is dynamic and perhaps is a poor tool to use as a benchmark.

[3894]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

Which to my mind is evidence that "culture" is dynamic and perhaps is a poor tool to use as a benchmark.

Then we err on the side of caution and leave the graves the *bleep* alone.

[JWBear]

Originally Posted by 3894

We'd have to see the grave itself - it's location and setup to know. My guess is that since we're just finding it now, it was pretty well hidden away.

Not necessarily. Just because something has lain undiscovered doesn’t mean it was deliberately hidden. There have been untold millions (perhaps billions) of people buried since the dawn of humankind; the vast majority of which have never been (and probably never will be) uncovered. In some parts of the world, discovering (and the subsequent archeological examination and removal of) buried remains on construction sites is a common occurrence. If these sites were to be left undisturbed when discovered, then very little would ever get built.