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2018-12-20 15:13:29 UTC
I wonder if anyone could help me with a query I have on Knossos.
As an amateur, I have followed the classic tales of Schliemann and Evans
and delighted in their swashbuckling science. I read of Evans digging
Knossos from the earth of ages and formulating this idea of a grand city.
His reconstructions amused the world and set Paris society on fire with the
images of the fashion of a lost world.
Then I discovered a book by Hans Georg Wunderlich, not an archeologist
but a geologist who visited the site of Knossos as a tourist and was struck
by certain anomolies in Evan's theory.
e.g. The floors were made of albaster, a soft stone.
As a geologist, Wunderlich realised that it was not a stone for heavy
duty use, as might be expected in a busy palace. Yet, the stone was largely
unworn... except for the roped off areas where tourists walked.
He listed this and many other anomolies in a book, "The Secret of Crete"
(Macmillan NY 1974) and proposes that Knossos was not a city for the living
but for the dead.
My question is: has has anyone read Wunderlich's book? If so, does he
have any credence in professional circles? Who is right, Evans or
Wunderlich?
Thank you in advance for your attention.
Anopheles
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Max Planck said "Knowledge advances one funeral at a time" meaning that, given the tendency to hierarchy and obedience thereof for career advancement, most people are unwilling to risk the loss of entitlement inherent in challenging authority.As an amateur, I have followed the classic tales of Schliemann and Evans
and delighted in their swashbuckling science. I read of Evans digging
Knossos from the earth of ages and formulating this idea of a grand city.
His reconstructions amused the world and set Paris society on fire with the
images of the fashion of a lost world.
Then I discovered a book by Hans Georg Wunderlich, not an archeologist
but a geologist who visited the site of Knossos as a tourist and was struck
by certain anomolies in Evan's theory.
e.g. The floors were made of albaster, a soft stone.
As a geologist, Wunderlich realised that it was not a stone for heavy
duty use, as might be expected in a busy palace. Yet, the stone was largely
unworn... except for the roped off areas where tourists walked.
He listed this and many other anomolies in a book, "The Secret of Crete"
(Macmillan NY 1974) and proposes that Knossos was not a city for the living
but for the dead.
My question is: has has anyone read Wunderlich's book? If so, does he
have any credence in professional circles? Who is right, Evans or
Wunderlich?
Thank you in advance for your attention.
Anopheles
For contact remove the try
Too many people have too much depending on propagating error, whether in politics or academia.
Elaine Morgan's demolition of the Tarzan theory of human evolution is a perfect example - since her death a couple of years ago, her theory is now being quietly inserted into the current dogma which had hardly changed in 150yrs since Piltdown Man.