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Archaeology's culture names and periods draw lines where there were none, and the people themselves did not care about any of them.
Drawn from what Ed Barnhart said
Mental modelThe map is not the territory
What Ed Barnhart actually said
- Ed Barnhart Archaeologist and director of the Maya Exploration Center
Archeology, in this regard, is the worst enemy of this. So we put these names on cultures, we talk about how they evolve from one to another, we draw these lines where there aren’t any.
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