Cindy Griffis on thu 14 feb 02
Ron wrote:
>>I would just like to point out that losing tools
serves an important evolutionary-sociological
function. It is because early man lost so many tools
that we know so much about him.
becky schroeder wrote:> >> i
pity the poor archeologist who unearths our home> in a
few thousand years. >>>
Becky,
Your home sounds similar to my own! I could match
Bill (Cosby) Huxtabell's (SP?) appliance graveyard!
I expect the archeologists will just assume my home
was the midden for the village........
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Janet Kaiser on fri 15 feb 02
> I expect the archaeologists will just assume my home
> was the midden for the village...
Or strange votive offerings to gods and goddesses unknown...? It
always tickles me when anything we cannot connect with today, is
considered to be a cult or religious object, when it is dug up by the
archaeologists. Every time we lay more tiles in The International
Potters' Path, I think of those future head-scratchers... Why (they
will wonder) did those ancient Celts carry little clay tablets from
all over the world to that particular site? It was obviously a strange
sort of place, because although it is the shape of other religious
buildings typical of that place and era, there are also signs of
habitation, drainage, etc. Priests obviously lived there and demanded
offerings from visiting pilgrims. Built at the base of an even earlier
structure (our 12-13th century castle) obviously built to defend the
area, it may have been a significant cult site where offerings were
made. Oh, yes. I have a lively imagination on tile-laying days and
other times, when people ask "why lay a tile path, when paving stones
would do?".
I used to be a collector of strange bits and pieces, which no one
seemed to know what they were used for. Real conversation pieces. Not
a one was really ancient, most were 20th century, but it was amazing
how we did not have a clue. My grandmother helped out until she passed
on in the 1980s. Having been born in the 1890s she had seen an awful
lot come and go... The worst "living artefact" I had, turned out to be
a "dog training collar". It was really medieval... Leather with long
2-inch steel prongs sticking out. I also have a strange object made by
Royal Doulton for Dewar's whisky... Obviously some sort of public
house bar or table furniture, but what exactly it was for even stumped
my Uncle, who spent all his life "researching" pubs.
Given another 10 or 20 years, only really ancient people will know
what (for example) a gramophone was (anyone under 20 already does
not!), need Morse code explaining to them or even recognise coal when
they see it. Maybe we will be communicating by cordless head phones,
dictaphones and video visors, not via the net by then too... My first
PC, scanner and printer (1984) are already considered "steam age" by
young techies, who laugh at the ancient equipment as well as the old
girl hauling it in for repair... Repair? What's that?
But what's new? In the 1950s, my eldest cousin asked my Grandmother,
"What was it like living in the Olden Days, Nan?"
"What do you mean, son?"
"Well, you know... The Olden Days, when you were a little girl and the
pirates were here..."
Janet Kaiser
The Chapel of Art / Capel Celfyddyd
Home of The International Potters' Path
8 Marine Crescent : Criccieth : GB-Wales
URL: http://www.the-coa.org.uk
postbox@the-coa.org.uk
Cindy Strnad on sat 16 feb 02
Janet wrote: Every time we lay more tiles in The International
Potters' Path, I think of those future head-scratchers... Why (they
will wonder) did those ancient Celts carry little clay tablets from
all over the world to that particular site? It was obviously a strange
sort of place, because although it is the shape of other religious
buildings typical of that place and era, there are also signs of
habitation, drainage, etc. Priests obviously lived there and demanded
offerings from visiting pilgrims. Built at the base of an even earlier
structure (our 12-13th century castle) obviously built to defend the
area, it may have been a significant cult site where offerings were
made.
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This really tickled me, Janet. I thought it was wonderful. And what, I wonder
will they make of Disney World? A great center of religion where was worshiped a
giant mouse and his court of anthropomorphic animals?
Cindy Strnad
Earthen Vessels Pottery
RR 1, Box 51
Custer, SD 57730
USA
cindy@earthen-vessels-pottery.com
http://www.earthen-vessels-pottery.com
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