Tuesday, April 04, 2023
Our Place in Space and Time
Paul MacKendrick, The Iberian Stones Speak: Archaeology in Spain and Portugal (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1969), p. 7:
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"Primitive" is hardly the word for the culture which produced the Altamira paintings; thus at the very outset Iberian archaeology induces that sense of perspective, proportion, even humility, which is one of archaeology's great rewards. We come to recognize a little better our place in space and time, to be a little more careful about using "modern" as a word of praise and "ancient" as one of scorn; even to recognize "modernity" wherever, as at Altamira, there is evidence of the vital spark of creative genius.
