[Sca-cooks] Images of Dining in Ireland 1581

Susan Fox selene at earthlink.net
Mon Aug 21 12:02:07 PDT 2006


Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise wrote:
>> Well, we've talked about this pretty extensively, but mostly, AFAIK,  
>> from within the dread, murky realm of "archaeological  
>> evidence" (which is usually a SCAdian euphemism for no  
>> documentation ;-)  ). 
>>     
>
> Whereas, bizarrely, in the real world, the "archaeological evidence" dug
> up out of the ground is considered rather more reliable than textual
> evidence. 

Tell me about it.  This is the age where Reliable Sources taught that a 
giraffe was a cross between a camel and a leopard.  Give me 
archaeological evidence any day.  People lie, dirt does not.

Selene



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