A thousand years later archeologists will dig her preserved remains up and declare it was a particularly significant ceremonial burial by a culture worshipping an earth goddess.
A thousand years later archeologists will dig her preserved remains up and declare it was a particularly significant ceremonial burial by a culture worshipping an earth goddess.
Those are exactly my complains about archeologists it gets hilarious. Everything has to be dead serious, mystic or divine. Pyramids aren't aligned to celestial bodies because it could happen they were used to make measures. Supposedly everyone was boring in the past, no one had hobbies or could die with their favorite story comic engraved in a chamber. Watching the sky at night was literally the second or third possible thing you could ever did apart from sleeping or having sex , of course they will know a lot about Astronomy without smart extraterrestrial aid. Always underestimating human will and creativity based on their own actual comodities and low effort survival comfort. Nothing could be possible without God or E.T. phoning home they say.
Stop confusing the History Channel for actual archeologists.
Archeologists being mocked for thinking that everything they find is somehow related to religion predates the Ancient Aliens, Alligator Hunters, and Pawn Store Channel by a significant margin. Motel of the Mysteries was released back in '79, and that whole book is about an archeologist in the year 4022 finding a motel buried in rubble in the year 2013 after North America was hit by an undefined catastrophe and coming to the conclusion that he has found an ancient tomb and that everything inside is a sacred burial relic. TV? A sacred altar dedicated to the gods MOVIEA and MOVIEB. Toilet bowl? A holy urn. Toilet seat? A ceremonial collar worn during the burial ceremony.
He's basically angry that archeologists aren't necromancers able to summon dead people to ask them "hey we found that crap in one of your settlement, what is it for", and the dead people go "oh, it's an ass scratcher", and that archeologists instead have to make theories and suppositions about whatever the hell anything is.
Referencing David Macaulay's 1979 book Motel of the Mysteries, in which he humorously mocks how many archeologists basically automatically go "I don't know what this thing's purpose was, therefore it must have been a religious item" whenever confronted with some ancient device whose purpose cannot be determined, which he shows by defamiliarizing a familiar object of American life (for another good example of defamiliarizing objects of modern western lifestyle, read Body Ritual among the Nacirema) and trying to figure out what future archeologists would say about it.
While I always mock them for being the typical perpetual student afraid to get an actual job out of universities, I kind of understand their position. Governments and education institutes that want them kicked out expect them to find discoveries out of the ordinary or lost funds and possibly a new job. So it's better for them to made up crap out of ordinary things than face the true world like everyone else. No one will support someone it took years unburying a structure only to find everyday items we still use today. Indiana Jones' legacy made them a big favor to their image.
This turned serious fast... I was only cracking a light-hearted joke. I respect archeologists because I enjoy reading articles/watching Youtube videos about history. I also find museums quality pastime. If you don't know where we came from, you can't fully understand the present either. Of course archeologists have also provided material for the entertainment industry.
