The effects on Archaeology from the Gaza Conflict

[saxus78]

I was just wondering if the current conflict between Israel and the Gazans were having an effect on archaeology in Israel and how archaeologists are coping with these effects. What sites are at risk? Has artifacts from the Gaza region surface in markets to pay for things?
Would this be a good article for a future issue?

[turanclancath]

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=404899


Perhaps this is an answer about Archaelogy and Ideology ?

Personally as an religious person   i dont agree with the Biblical Paragraph.
I think as it is placed now in the Times its coloured and biased by  anti Biblical visions   influenced by the present, (  Anti Biblism  prominent nowdays in England !! ) exactly as the  author says that present is misused to colour our past.

The whole article is a big charade to attack the Bible wrapped in  some remarks about Maya Inca and other history.
I could write an better article as I did in another Forum
As i will copy here

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History is even more subjective and misused .
But Archaelogical Interpretation is  ... History dicipline.
 
Perhaps the methods of archaelogy are scientific   and it is a autonomous dicipline ( but surely not objective ) but the interpretation is part of the historians trade.!!!
 
 
The Archaelogists deliver the amunition  to the historians .( politicians etc ).
 
In reflecting the article it occured to me that indeed  Marija Gimbutas and here Kurgan thesis ,here great Goddess theory, etc etc
and the feministic archaelogy of here more  extreme followers ( Rian Eisler  etc ) are modern vieuws  about Gender, Women , Males etc  projected to the past.!!!!
Exactly as the article postulates.
 
see 
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimbutas
 
http://www.debunker.com/patriarchy.html#goddess
 
but also contrary  defending Gimbutas etc 
 
http://www.suppressedhistories.net/articles/articles.html
 
For Indo and Proto Indo European studies you have the same problem  present thinking/idyals 
influence the  vision of  the past .
In India  the Archaelogy of The Sanskrit Aryan period is very hotly debated as it is coloured by present ideoogical visions.About the importance and role of the Aryans etc
See  Indo Aryan Migrations  link:
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Aryan_migration.
 
and 
 
http://micheldanino.voiceofdharma.com/indus.html
 
And an classic example is Greece versus Turkey and its influence on Archaelogy and History .
 
Was Greece populated from the North or From Asia Minor. ?
And Cypriotic Archaelogy .
 
The problem is very old.For instance :
Caesar deliberately misused Geography/History for his ends in the Gallic wars.
 

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The author stumbled in his own trap !!!!
Showing what he really likes !!!!


The Tragic Comedy is that a devout Muslim  also would never  never  deny King David or King Solomon as they are very highly esteemed in the Koran.!!!!!!







Turanclancath:)