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tiompan
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Re: but...
Oct 02, 2012, 11:05
tiompan wrote:
Harryshill wrote:
Can't see any point in identifying modern from ancient.

The world is full of both and it's not marked as such, nor would it be desirable to be so


It's all part of fun /puzzle .

I feel much the same way about "art " forgeries , if those who pay the dosh/recipients can't tell the difference then who cares if it was Tom Keating or Rembrandt .


Contrasting our perceptions of a fake ,which we had initially believed to be genuine ,with a later view of the same site/ artefact in the realisation that it is a fake , provides a convenient insight into our subjectivity , a sort of instant epoché , one of the few positives to come out of phenomenology in archaeology . Basically ,fakes are good to think with .
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