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Sanctuary S
Sanctuary Apr 30, 2016 08:59:18
Replying to Monganaut

Monganaut wrote:
If you've not seen this you may enjoy it. Quaint old episode of Chronicle with Alexander Thom (and his curious Hitler 'tash) from 1970.

Cracking the Stone Age Code - BBC Chronicle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WafRqdOQK30

Accurate or not to modern eyes and ears, I love these old programmes, they're part of what fired me up about the mystery of prehistory as a kid. Plus it's nice to see sites as they were 30 or 40 years ago, when peeps were less interested in our prehistory.

Agree 100%. Who cares a stuff if they were accurate or not as time decrees their fate anyway and they shouldn't be ridiculed if they were way off the mark. As you suggest, it gave many of us a great deal of pleasure and we should be thankful for it as it has led us into other things.

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tiompan Apr 30, 2016 09:56:39
Replying to Sanctuary

Sanctuary wrote:
Monganaut wrote:
If you've not seen this you may enjoy it. Quaint old episode of Chronicle with Alexander Thom (and his curious Hitler 'tash) from 1970.

Cracking the Stone Age Code - BBC Chronicle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WafRqdOQK30

Accurate or not to modern eyes and ears, I love these old programmes, they're part of what fired me up about the mystery of prehistory as a kid. Plus it's nice to see sites as they were 30 or 40 years ago, when peeps were less interested in our prehistory.

Agree 100%. Who cares a stuff if they were accurate or not as time decrees their fate anyway and they shouldn't be ridiculed if they were way off the mark. As you suggest, it gave many of us a great deal of pleasure and we should be thankful for it as it has led us into other things.
Accuracy was not the main problem , Thom did some very accurate plans . The central problem was interpretation whether on the suggested high precision of the builders i.e. one minute of arc ,or 1mm in his equally problematic mensuration . Pointing out errors is not ridiculing . It was done at the time and mostly ignored outwith archaeology .

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