[meteorite-list] Meteorites in temples
From: Marco Langbroek <marco.langbroek_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Sep 4 08:41:03 2005 Message-ID: <431AEB5B.5090409_at_wanadoo.nl> > One of the sad things about being a specialist in > one feild of science means that you tend to not > have much knowledge of/interest in other feilds. I > often wonder how many meteorites paleontologists > have walked over in the desert, and how many > valuable fossils meteorite hunters have walked over. This is certainly true. Concerning meteorites, archaeological research and Greek temples: one has to realize that quite some excavations of such objects were done at a time that meteoritics as a science barely existed, and archaeologgy itself was in its infancy. Can you blame a 19th century archaeologist for not recognizing a meteorite, when he worked at a time that scientists were not unanimous about the fact if meteorites even really existed? Today, it also depends a bit on which subfield it concerns. Classical archaeology tends to be less multidisciplinary oriented (but there are exceptions, I should haste to add). Prehistoric archaeology on the other hand, often is multidisciplinary oriented (and archaeology should be in my opinion - I have a PhD in archaeology by the way). In modern prehistoric archaeological research, it is quite normal to do an analysis of the lithics found, as this can for example point you to trade networks of raw materials. And meteorites have been found in this way: one was found among the stone infill of a pit in the British hillfort of Danebury for example. The meteoritic iron artifacts from Hopewell mounds are another, wel known example of course. - Marco ----- Dr Marco Langbroek Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) e-mail: meteorites_at_dmsweb.org private website http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek DMS website http://www.dmsweb.org ----- Received on Sun 04 Sep 2005 08:40:59 AM PDT |
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