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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:25am on 2011-02-05

"Often the evidence for a 'race of invaders' consists of cultural changes - which, in prehistoric societies, means primarily new kinds of pots. I have a prejudice against this sort of argument. I get idiotic mental images of invading armies brandishing pots, which they thrust threateningly into the trembling hands of the conquered indigenes." -- Egyptologist Barbara Mertz (b. 1927-09-29), Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs, 1964 [thanks to [info] katrinb for quoting this earlier]

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posted by [identity profile] sodyera.livejournal.com at 04:01pm on 2011-02-05
Actually, I can see a passive adoption when a new culture moves in, esp. an adoption of new designs by local choice:
"Yo, Atek uses a VF 116 and it holds up better than our TVC 1-5, so I just started using theirs."
"Yeah, them TVCs are crap anyway. Hey, you think we can get a gross of 'em wholesale?"
It happens all the time, so why not back then?

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posted by [personal profile] minoanmiss at 05:24pm on 2011-02-05
Oh, that makes lots of sense. I think, though, that culture is not the same as lineage -- the same people can change their culture, as you just described.
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