http://www.collide-a-scape.com/2009/09/03/the-allure-of-mythical-peoples/ where nature and culture meet Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:14:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.collide-a-scape.com/2009/09/03/the-allure-of-mythical-peoples/comment-page-1/#comment-768 teofilo Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:48:32 +0000 http://www.collide-a-scape.com/?p=1532#comment-768 Oh, God.  The book looks okay, and potentially pretty good (though not really my kind of thing), but talking about it that way is missing the point so profoundly that it does make me worry a bit.  This is the sort of thing that makes me think someone needs to bring a realistic understanding of southwestern archaeology into the mainstream of public discourse, whether it's me or Craig Childs or the archaeologists themselves. Oh, God.  The book looks okay, and potentially pretty good (though not really my kind of thing), but talking about it that way is missing the point so profoundly that it does make me worry a bit.  This is the sort of thing that makes me think someone needs to bring a realistic understanding of southwestern archaeology into the mainstream of public discourse, whether it’s me or Craig Childs or the archaeologists themselves.

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