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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2013 12:46:21 GMT -6
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Post by skywalker on Aug 4, 2013 22:57:30 GMT -6
There are a lot of artifacts like this floating around. The problem with them is that in most cases they were "discovered" centuries after Jesus died so there is really no way to verify if any of them are authentic or not. It is possible they could be narrowed down to the correct time period and location but that is about it. It's still interesting to see stuff like this though. Whether it is real or not it was still very important to the people who had it. They believed that it was real.
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Post by bewildered on Sept 3, 2013 11:29:47 GMT -6
That's an excellent take on it, sky. Written like a true archaeologist.
The problem with extinct human material culture is rather obvious: we have no way of correctly discerning what an artifact was, what it was used to do, and what it meant to those who fashioned it. The latter of those three is the defining characteristic of any artifact. The stone "hand axe" I posted about on the Native Americans in History thread is an excellent example of what I mean: we know that humans (and proto-humans) created them, but we have no idea what they were used for. They were made for hundreds of thousands of years (close to a million, actually), but no one can authoritatively assert what the creators used them for. Archaeology is therefore a "science-like" pursuit.
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