Auras

[gryffin23]

I don't actually believe in them but at the moment, I'm in the midst of laying out a skeleton (wanted to write my thought before I forget) and she feels high status somehow as though she is looking over my shoulder and saying "Mind you lay me out properly, do you know who I am?". I wonder why that would be. Maybe it is because she is so complete

Comments

[fpb]

Therr are all kinds of things that might bring about such a feeling - the immediate understanding that this was a high-status burial, perhaps the context of the burial area (of which you say nothing), the sense that something important might depend on this particular dig. But in the last analysis one does not know, and to reduce it to environmental influences would be reductionism of the grossest kind. Who knows? I am a religious person myself, and the idea that human beings are made in God's image has many meanings as far as I am concerned.

[gryffin23]

Only an abstract thought with no relevance to the actual archaeological context. Just found it interesting to have a thought like that but then, in the abstract sense, I am always conscious of the fact that these skeletons were people and had senses of self. Anyway, no real practical reason behind it.

[maple_clef]

No thoughts, really, except that you have a very interesting job :)

I should imagine it's hard not to have feelings/hunches about the skeletons and (consciously or subconsciously) make up stories/personalities that you attach to them. I think I would, in your place.