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JohnLindsay
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|  New Message Posted!2013-01-26 14:26
A big new stack on upper, and later, as sediment and time, but rivers and terraces and stratifications.
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JohnLindsay
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| New Message Posted!2013-01-15 12:50
Adkins 1978 explaines axes, adzes and chisels. But not thick butt and thin butt... I wonder how important a thick butt or thin butt might be?
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| New Message Posted!2013-01-15 12:49
Habitation and inhabitants seems a contested category. Holgate BAR 194, 1988. has neolithic settlement in the title but it is actually a catalogue of all the lithic finds. Yet he then presumes to contruct a category settlement, which seems to me one of those words that might mean anything you like. Connect settlement with habitation and I think a category has been constructed. Keep it as inhabitation, for which strangely we need UNin rather than just UN for the negation, and we could have inhabited landscapes meaning anytthing we liked.
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| New Message Posted!2013-01-11 11:24
need to add settlement, as in Case, 1982, for a settlement pattern might be that there is no settlement, never mind what settlement might mean. Add to that habitation and domestic.
What I find works now in google is specifying site, for example BIAB and author name, and one string, so BIAB Case Cassington works. It doesn't work in ads.ac.uk but it does work in Pastscape. Though to say works might mean only in cases.
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| New Message Posted!2012-10-22 16:32
I've noticed some more words and things, the idea of touchstone used in Library Thing for example, different from its use in art history; the idea of skeuomorph, used in archaeology and some web design, the idea of data table, used by UCL CASA to mean a white plank, whereas I think of it in quite another form, the idea of crowdsourcing, which I thought had a meaning but find it being used in a quite different way, and of course citation, and indexing, which I knew already.
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| New Message Posted!2012-10-21 21:14
On Library Thing, someone used the word touchstone, which then popped up on another community with another meaning. I'm beginning to notice a patter, touchstone, meaning, then someone used the term crowdsourcing with a completely different meaning from what I thought it meant, I can understand crowdsourcing on this site with the meaning I understand, but not his;
then we had data table for a white painted plank, that was UCL... which Megalith might not know;
after that came reception theory, in art history, I thought reception theory already meant something'
and before that, I had citation, index, with more meanings than I care to recollect.
I think there is a sort of archaeology of semantics going on here; Orwell used the ministry of truth for an establishment power which make meaning core to being, now meaning is what anyone wants it to be; I'm not sure which is less desirable.
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| New Message Posted!2012-09-25 11:22
I'm tempted now to go the whole hog ontology. Parmenides is translated by Popper as The Way of Search for metahodos. Popper hasn't heard of google.
I think we have method here, but a way of inquiry, or enquiry, a how to do might do. Everyone interested in megaliths is interested in some what or other in a way of inquiry.
The case Parmenides uses is Moon. Is there a light moon and a night moon, or is there moon?
The level of bother one will make about this is I think partly personality and partly culture.
But this can I think be applied to people living in estuaries, for example where there are no megaliths, now. Moon is connected with tide and time. Tide is connected with fresh water and salt water. Time and tide matter.
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| New Message Posted!2012-09-23 21:09
ahah, misread that, it is date joined, not date message posted. Sigh.
But add here the volume of London Archaeology 54 title Havering, which deals with two Rainham ring ditches, unknown in Rainham Library which I checked on Saturday.
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| New Message Posted!2012-09-23 21:06
I've noticed this seems to still be set at 28-02- so some how or other it doesn't appear up the stack.
But now we want to reach the heady heights of ontology.
Chris Gosden, Aesthetics and Archaeology, or it could be the other way round, with three papers. Jones on drawing things, though he doesn't make the point that the drawings have captions.
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| New Message Posted!2012-09-18 10:38
I left sepuchral out of that stack as I couldn't remember how to spell it, and it looks as if it is one of those words whose spelling has changed over the past couple of hundred years, which is another matter I hadn't noted before.
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