01-14-2010, 09:57 AM
For a great part you are very right Jona, and for a little part wrong.
I also gruel when reading that because a well is found which has been made of a wood barrel probably containing wine from Caligula's personal winery, all of a sudden the man was in the Netherlands when he attacked the ocean... also stated because of a source which mentions the tower of "Kalla" near Katwijk, a sea town here in NL..
Same with the little silver disc found in Nijmegen on the Kops Plateau in the old, very large camp, attested to have been from a general since the name corresponds...
however, in some cases Archaeologists do force scholars to change their perspective of the sources, and force them to criticise their primary sources henceforth..
No the Teutoburg forest battles were not important for the overall history of the Roman Empire, and yes the excavations at Kalkriese were because that is nowhere near the location of the so called forest and Hermanns Denkmal.
Same with the siege of Dura, may not have been important overall, but the discovery of what seems to be a church with murals of early christianity is important enough in itself...
So yes, a better understanding between the two disciplines is needed, as well as overall historio-archaeologists who specialise n BOTH disciplines.
Its a little like the sociology vs history debate...
M.VIB.M.
I also gruel when reading that because a well is found which has been made of a wood barrel probably containing wine from Caligula's personal winery, all of a sudden the man was in the Netherlands when he attacked the ocean... also stated because of a source which mentions the tower of "Kalla" near Katwijk, a sea town here in NL..
Same with the little silver disc found in Nijmegen on the Kops Plateau in the old, very large camp, attested to have been from a general since the name corresponds...
however, in some cases Archaeologists do force scholars to change their perspective of the sources, and force them to criticise their primary sources henceforth..
No the Teutoburg forest battles were not important for the overall history of the Roman Empire, and yes the excavations at Kalkriese were because that is nowhere near the location of the so called forest and Hermanns Denkmal.
Same with the siege of Dura, may not have been important overall, but the discovery of what seems to be a church with murals of early christianity is important enough in itself...
So yes, a better understanding between the two disciplines is needed, as well as overall historio-archaeologists who specialise n BOTH disciplines.
Its a little like the sociology vs history debate...
M.VIB.M.
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Katte Kabuto no O wo shimeyo!
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Katte Kabuto no O wo shimeyo!
H.J.Vrielink.
