It would be less remarkable to people who grew up with them :p
Archaeologists get a lot of flak for defaulting to ‘it was for religious/ritual purposes’, but I think cult membership/usage might actually be a good explanation. Especially considering the existence of things like cults that think Platonic solids were some kind of sacred knowledge.
Archaeologists study a lot more than ritual spaces, many don’t even have anything to do with that. It’s a joke that archaeologists themselves make, because sometimes people get carried away and use it to explain things they’re unfamiliar with but aren’t ritual related.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
It would be less remarkable to people who grew up with them :p
Archaeologists get a lot of flak for defaulting to ‘it was for religious/ritual purposes’, but I think cult membership/usage might actually be a good explanation. Especially considering the existence of things like cults that think Platonic solids were some kind of sacred knowledge.
eurodyne@piefed.world 6 hours ago
It’s a very interesting characterization of archaeologists as “defaulting” to something that’s their entire field of study.
Not criticizing; I just thought that was amusing.
And do they get a lot of flack for that? Perhaps you’ve been watching too much Stargate SG1.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
Archaeologists study a lot more than ritual spaces, many don’t even have anything to do with that. It’s a joke that archaeologists themselves make, because sometimes people get carried away and use it to explain things they’re unfamiliar with but aren’t ritual related.