Restoring Faith: Crete's Ancient Minoan Civilisation (2009)
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·March 17, 2025JKolios
w0de0
The Victorians found it very hard to see contemporary humans as anything other than archetypes or moral exemplars. In this way they are quite similar to us moderns.
kromem
For throwing that much shade, it does a piss poor job in actually backing up or citing the evidence.
Evans definitely had issues with how he went about things and his analysis. For example, the "snake goddess" is holding snakes remarkably similar to wooden snake props found in Egypt 300 years earlier.
But this article is pretty damn empty of actual substance.
yubblegum
> "shared pagan roots" ..."his scholarly integrity"
A mix of false & presumptuous generalizations, and a somewhat irritating yet unintentionally humorous and ironic collection of words.
nobodywillobsrv
Funny that this article also makes the incorrect link between defense and preparing for war and "not having peace".
For some reason it was very hard for the Victorians who pioneered archaeology to understand that ancient humans were actual human beings and not storytelling archetypes or moral exemplars. This kind of archaeology is just inverted science fiction: Commenting on the present through the lens of the imaginary past, instead of the imaginary future.