10-01-2016, 09:08 PM
Ah, Diane,
I don't know if you are around still (or yet), but your last paragraph left me with some anticipation for sure!
As to my question, questioning can go wrong so many ways. I was looking for topics that produced similar, seemingly unreconcilable positions in discourse over decades. Now I think I have found the perfect example:
Vinca culture: Script or not?
Basically also here it boils down to two opposing parties, the ones that only accept and build upon what is accepted knowledge, and the ones that are eager to aquire new knowledge. Nothing new will happen as long as there is no reconciliation or some spectacular find that proves one or the other.
Personally, I find the similarities between Vincan "script" and Cretan Linear A very compelling.
I don't know if you are around still (or yet), but your last paragraph left me with some anticipation for sure!
As to my question, questioning can go wrong so many ways. I was looking for topics that produced similar, seemingly unreconcilable positions in discourse over decades. Now I think I have found the perfect example:
Vinca culture: Script or not?
Basically also here it boils down to two opposing parties, the ones that only accept and build upon what is accepted knowledge, and the ones that are eager to aquire new knowledge. Nothing new will happen as long as there is no reconciliation or some spectacular find that proves one or the other.
Personally, I find the similarities between Vincan "script" and Cretan Linear A very compelling.