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  • Bwalker545
    Bwalker545 Posts: 162
    I wasnt refering to these ruins in the sense of history being alive... I was making a point about history in general...these ruins are "Pre-History" by definition since their is no written record from their people. Thus we study them in anthropology not history... Thats why they need to be preserved so that we can make our completly educated guesses about them (that really is what archaeology is, guess work)...we will never know for sure... these ruins dont make test easier by still existing...my point was that history is not just dates and stats, its the story of our species and it is alive and ever changing. People like to confuse chronology with history and it simply isnt the same thing.
    And again, I am pretty damn sure that there are plenty of other places to build those houses, why does it have to be there?
    (The rants of a historian/anthropologist) What the hell am i really gonna do with this degree....
    "Almost unconsciously he traced with his finger in the dust on the table: 2+2=5" 1984
  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    Rats of Multa wrote:
    here's a previous story pertaining to the main developer pushing this project,...

    http://www.hcn.org/servlets/hcn.Article?article_id=3672
    ...
    I'm guessing that every other inch of Arizona and Utah has a house built on it already.
    Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
    Hail, Hail!!!
  • farfromglorified
    farfromglorified Posts: 5,700
    Magus wrote:
    I wasnt refering to these ruins in the sense of history being alive... I was making a point about history in general...these ruins are "Pre-History" by definition since their is no written record from their people. Thus we study them in anthropology not history... Thats why they need to be preserved so that we can make our completly educated guesses about them (that really is what archaeology is, guess work)...we will never know for sure... these ruins dont make test easier by still existing...my point was that history is not just dates and stats, its the story of our species and it is alive and ever changing. People like to confuse chronology with history and it simply isnt the same thing.
    And again, I am pretty damn sure that there are plenty of other places to build those houses, why does it have to be there?
    (The rants of a historian/anthropologist) What the hell am i really gonna do with this degree....

    Ok, I understand your point a little better here and I don't really disagree with anything you're saying here.

    My only point is that the understanding of this part of history, by default, is not necessarily more valuable than serving the needs of the people who own this site and those who will potentially live/work on it. That's a case that needs to be made. And I simply haven't heard that case for this particular site.

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