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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/26/british-archaeology-social-change
"What is as true today as it was in the mid-19th century is that we
are living through an era of rapid social and economic change: that
produces insecurity which prompts the search to answer "who are we?"
and "where do we come from?". Those were the questions that Greenwell
and his contemporaries puzzled over with their flints and shards of
pottery. Those are the questions to which contemporary archaeologists
are still piecing together answers.
Like our Victorian forebears, we need the past to orientate us in a
turbulent present. It is only when we have a good understanding of our
past that we can begin to imagine a future. And needless to say the
story of that past gives no ground for Griffin's theories; these
islands like the rest of continental Europe have seen patterns of
migration back and forth across the North Sea. We have always been a
multinational cluster of nations."
David Christainsen |
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