Well, Paul - can there be a past that is not contemporary?
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Cornelius Holtorf
* from January 2008: Kalmar University *
Institutionen för arkeologi och antikens historia, Lunds universitet
http://web.comhem.se/cornelius
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From: lineone <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 12:07 pm
Subject: contradictory past
> Was talking to an Egyptologist last night who objected that the
> term
> "contemporary past" was a contradiction in terms. I can see what
> she
> means. Did we adopt this term because the millenium stopped us
> talking
> about 20th century archaeology? can there be a contemporary past?
>
> I just wondered.....
>
> P G-B
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