Bring Out Your Dead Analysis

The article I chose to critique is Bring out your dead: people, pots, and politics by Don Brothwell (2004). I think this is a fairly well written article with a few minor parts. One problem I have is how he mentions other cultures and their time scale. Some cultures that we don’t know much about would be hard to tell if this was the case. In other culture their time scale is stranger, if a person in the group gets older it is said they are 100 years old. It would be smart to radiocarbon date something and know that culture time scale to actually record the approximate time of their mythology. For example, radiocarbon dating Australian aborigines to tell about when they believe their dreamtime and how it fits into the climate and environment of Australia at the time. If this was after a time of receding flood water it would give us a perspective on their creation mythology. More than trying to understand their time in linking it to our timeline
Bringing people into this century would be a problem as he states in the article, “This may be done for tactful, …show more content…
If this were true woe would know nothing on Greek, Roman, Norse, or Egyptian mythology. Some culture yes this is true but the example he partially uses is dreamtime which is from aboriginal cultures that we have records from so it would never completely die out. The main reason to me, that Britain does not want anything to do with repatriation, is that then they would need to return many trophies of war and collecting from when they were an empire. Which would include may prized artifacts like the Elgin Marbles. Which would more than likely need to be returned to Greece. Yes, I understand repatriation mainly applies to remains and grave good but if it was implement in Britain many cultures who want their “stolen” artifacts back would try to use that legislation as a mean to hopefully get their “property