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wideford Apr 16, 2010 09:27:21
Replying to Sanctuary

We think our difficulty lies with the past when in reality we do not know what many of the modern buildings we grew up with are like for those who inhabit or work in them, even ones built during our lifetimes. Excavating fairly recent sites has been known to overturn our views about them

S StoneGloves
StoneGloves Apr 16, 2010 09:33:31
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Some recent buildings are also kind-of taboo, in that nobody wants to know what they're like, and would rather not hear about them.

S Sanctuary
Sanctuary Apr 16, 2010 09:54:03
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wideford wrote:
We think our difficulty lies with the past when in reality we do not know what many of the modern buildings we grew up with are like for those who inhabit or work in them, even ones built during our lifetimes. Excavating fairly recent sites has been known to overturn our views about them
While I agree with you in part, I think there's a vast gulf between modern buildings and what we have at Avebury. We often know very little about the more recent buildings because they mainly don't have the same interest for us. Moving backwards in time from the more recent past, I'm not the remotest bit interested in the Roman period for example but am fascinated by the Neolithic so go out of my way to continue to listen and learn.