Yep. I have issues with Pryor but this was an important study that people seem to ignore all the damn time.https://twitter.com/civilwarbore/status/769977162837393413 …
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
him and Miranda Green! They have honed my ability to read non fic for popular audiences & separate fact vs interpretation.
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Replying to @NeolithicSheep @civilwarbore
yeah, I like some of Green's work, although some of it toes the line between academic and popular audiences
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @civilwarbore
and i don't necessarily have an issue with history being written for popular audiences but i find that...
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @civilwarbore
...they tend to gloss over a lot of interesting details that I think people would be interested in knowing?
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Also you get things like Pryor inventing entire Neolithic rituals & the meaning behind them to explain monuments and um er.
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Replying to @NeolithicSheep @civilwarbore
yeah, although he's not the only archaeologist to do that. only problem is that the others lived over 100 years ago lol.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
fucking Victorians, they've got a lot to answer for re popular conceptions of British prehistory
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yeah for real lol
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