Thursday, August 13, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
World Archaeological Congress Snubs Israel - '...The conference program is full of abstracts condemning Israeli archaeology and its practices concerning the management of the cultural heritage. We obviously do not contest the legitimacy of individual contributors to their views, but the huge numbers of inaccuracies and the type of insidious 'past-mastering', for which Israel stands accused, makes this conference little more than a political demonstration. We find it very sad that the WAC has uncritically given its name to this...' [There's much more. Unbelievably politicized science to the max.]
