Actually, Francis Bacon made that point in the 16th Century.
Bob Trubshaw wrote:
> At 15:58 28/9/98 -0700, you wrote:
> >You are now asking questions that are difficult to answer. Off hand, it seems
> >to me that "history" is composed of someone else's lies, while in archaeololgy,
> >at least us scientific types, get to make up our own.
>
> >Post-processualists probably find it relatively difficult to distinguish.
>
> Thankfully, I think PPists have shown that we need to be very careful to
> distinguish when 'scientific types' are 'making up their own' archaeology.
>
> Bob
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