Littlestone
|
Re: Photographs of Seahenge
Dec 12, 2006, 15:39
|
|
...i thought it was terrible the way it was ripped out of the sand...
Yes, the whole thing (removal) was handled very insensitively.
I just don't get it. I don't know why some in the 'academic' community can't get it through their thick heads that these places mean more than just historical/archaeological information. A little bit of compromise goes a long way. If the Seahenge archaeologists had brought in non-archaeological groups to offer a simple ceremony before the structure was removed it may have lessened some of the tension (perhaps they did and I missed it). You see the same thing on TV all the time; a freshly discovered skull prised form the soil without a modicum of ceremony. I remember visiting a dig outside Cirencester once with someone not from the Western tradition in archaeological excavation - she was horrified to see a half-excavated skeleton at the bottom of a rain-filled pit; first thing she did was collect some wild flowers and place them over the remains. A little more sensitivity please; these dug skeletons are not bits of coal, they are people who had lives and who laid down our history - not just grist for another primetime television show (or more facts to fill some archaeologist's latest publication).
Whether Seahenge should have been left to the sea or 'saved' is a different argument though.
|
Hob
|
Re: Photographs of Seahenge
Dec 12, 2006, 22:37
|
True, a little bit of sympathy can go a long way.
Respect For The Ancestors, Within Reason (please).
You would have liked the conversation with a Japanese Lady I met today, she was intrigued that such thinking exists here.
|
dee
|
Re: Photographs of Seahenge
Dec 13, 2006, 14:12
|
Respect for the ancestors, within reason (please)
What does that mean exactly?? I say max respect for our ancestors at all times......but thats just me.
|
Hob
|
Re: Photographs of Seahenge
Dec 13, 2006, 22:07
|
It means I was a bit trolleyed last night. Full of cold :(
I think what I was getting at was that respect must be tempered with an awareness that getting carried away with ancestral reverence can result in things like ethnic cleansing. I know that's a pretty unlikely and tennuous train of thought, but my mind has a tendency to wander off at tangents.
|
dee
|
Re: Photographs of Seahenge
Dec 14, 2006, 13:10
|
|
Fair e nuff hobby!!
|
CianMcLiam
|
Re: Photographs of Seahenge
Dec 16, 2006, 00:01
|
I found this by complete accident when I was looking for something else:
http://www.geocities.com/jilaens/seahenge300.jpg
Wow! If you can find the copyright holder and get permission I think that would be you sorted.
I also saw this on the same page: http://www.geocities.com/jilaens/newgrange_int.jpg How on earth did they get permission to take a photo inside and put candles all over the place?! Feck sake, I need two million in insurance cover before they'll even consider me taking pics inside.
|
Vicster
|
Re: Photographs of Seahenge
Dec 16, 2006, 16:09
|
|
CianMcLiam wrote:
What exactly do they think you are going to do in there???????? It's hardly like being let loose in a museum and breaking a ming vase is it? Can't imagine you could do that much damage with your tripod!
|
Andrew P
|
Re: Photographs of Seahenge
Dec 18, 2006, 00:08
|
|
Thanks. That site has exceeded its bandwidth, so I'll have to wait until they're sorted before I can check out those two photos. I'll keep trying them, though.
|
Andrew P
|
Re: Photographs of Seahenge
Dec 18, 2006, 00:10
|
|
Sorry - photo, singular. The other one is the Newgrange one.
|
