History Forum / General / Archaeology / January 2008

Although I think Stanford is wrong about his Solutrean hypothesis, what in
the world is he doing speaking at a conference with Edo Nyland (billed as
a world renowned Linguistic Archaeologist, a rather fancy way of saying
kook) and Gunnar Thompson?

http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/01/29/fragments_of_the_tocharian/print.html
Fragments of the Tocharian
How did Buddha get from India to China? And what does a 97-year-old
translator in Beijing have to do with it?

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
ANTARCTIC GLACIERS MELTING MORE QUICKLY
to Mr David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
La Rochelle Saturday, January 26, 2008

I recommend -
The Aryan Invasion: theories, counter-theories and historical
significance
http://www.archaeologyonline.net/artifacts/aryan-invasion-theories.html

On Mon 28 Jan 2008 lwk2431 <lwk2431@yahoo.com> wrote:

This I really knows what he's talking about I was so surprised to see
that on www.captivatetoconnect.com I got really good dating advice.
Before I knew it I had like three chicks chasing after me, I know this
sounds like B.S  but for real and I suggest you take a second to

Archaeologists are not chronologists, certainly not expert in Biblical
chronology.  Thus they depend upon Biblical scholars and chronologists for
the latest dates for which to compare archaeology.  The following represent
the dates for major events based upon the correction of ...

http://tinyurl.com/34ynaa
Doug

The work it takes to master the background information on
the Essenes is immense.  No wonder no one else has the
appetite for it.
What light is there at the end of the tunnel?

Amarna Letter EA 27 talks about two gold cast statutes that were observed by
messengers that were then replaced by plated gold statues.   What happened
to the gold cast statutes?  Akhenaten was the pharaoh who ruled immediately
after the Ten Plagues.  The Bible confirms that the ...

Here is a brief general reference regarding "density of strata" problems
with the theories of Finkelstein, et al:
""The density of strata argument, raised by Mazar (1997: 163) and Ben-Tor
(2000). If the date of 10th-century BCE strata is lowered to the early 9th

WHERE IS AN ARCHAEOLOGIST WHEN YOU NEED ONE SERIES:
ARTAXERXES BURIED BETWEEN DARIUS I AND II WHERE HE SHOULD BE BECAUSE HE
ACTUALLY IS XERXES/ARSES!
Tradition comes down to us which kings were buried where at Naqshi-Rustam.

Xenophon was paid by the Persians to revise the work of Thucydices and write
the history of Cyrus.  Xenophon is the only Greek historian whose complete
works survive.  Xenophon employed the help of others like Plato and
Aristotle to pull this off.  The net result was an expansion ...

I throw these points open to general discussion...
1) Should archaeology be seen as the "handmaiden to history" (see Roberta
Gilchrist), merely there to support what is written in historical texts?
2) Should history be applied "indiscriminately" as Lars Wilson proposes or

Listeros,
My final and largest web page for your perusal;
Mike Ruggeri's Maya World
http://tinyurl.com/ypkq2v