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By virtue of trying to prop up this wall, I think the same "civilization-builiding moral standards" aren't being applied here. More realistically, it's a tinge

• aa-jv 5y ago
  Well, given that the people of the region were told for decades that their ancestors were too sub-human to have advanced well enough to develop the technology to build a wall out of bricks with no mortar, which subsequently survived centuries .. I would posit that it is not appropriate to label this as anything more than 'cultural relief that the racist view is being removed from their zeitgeist, because: science, bitches.' The Great Zimbabwe site was built by a people who clearly had more understanding of the world of physics during their time than we allowed for in our pro-European narratives, so far. The same is true of many, many other sites around the world, which don't fit the narrative of western academics' world view of themselves and their Eureopean cultures, and which undermine the perspective that prior civilizations were primitive in their approach to technology and application of scientific discoveries. The hubris and arrogance of this field is slowing being peeled away, layer by layer, and replaced with facts which update the context of human history. Its not without some relief that I personally note that this is no longer the exclusive purview of european academics with an agenda ..