More immediately exciting is the helicopter piggybacked on the rover, which, if it works, will make the first powered flight on another planet. Other modern theories suggest Stonehenge was designed as a sacred place of healing, or music, or observations of the sun, or all the above. Archaeologists are likely to have a prepared script along the lines of forgetting history and repeating the past, or getting right what the winners who write history got wrong. In a similar vein, one archaeologist proposed that archaeology is important for the same reason that art, literature, philosophy and history are important, because people have a basic need to know where we came from. More simply, she wrote, it’s important “because we feel it is.”

Source: International New York Times August 03, 2020 23:26 UTC