A blog commenting on various aspects of the private collecting and trade in archaeological artefacts today and their effect on the archaeological record.
Thursday 2 April 2020
Narrativisation of things
Some Instagram narrativisation from Lara Maiklem ('London Mudlark') @LondonMudlark:
I see the PAS is doing its job as usual. Some coin tourism here: finds.org.uk/Nicomedia (something wrong with the text display here, or is it my computer?).
One 'story', another; it was dropped by a kid who didn't know what he'd found in a Blitzed building. There are no end of tall tales we can imagine when evidence is an object. The only things missing with many of these tales are the 'once upon a time' and 'they all lived happily ever after'.
One 'story', another; it was dropped by a kid who didn't know what he'd found in a Blitzed building. There are no end of tall tales we can imagine when evidence is an object. The only things missing with many of these tales are the 'once upon a time' and 'they all lived happily ever after'.
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