Hello,
I just joined this group and am happy to know that such discussion
exists on the web.

I am not an archeologist, but wished I was. I had too mnay things to
do: earn a kiving and especially do art.

But I have a question that I hope will create a debate:

Can an interest or a deep attraction in our distant past be
completely distinct from some sort of apprehending of the sacred, the
spiritual?
I mean: are some of you who devote a good part of their life to
finding out about strange ancestral ways of life never touched by the
thrill of the uncanny, the sacred?

You will find this cliche, like some clip from Indiana Jones/The
cursed Temple...but to me, the far past, (and the more I read about
it/visit places)has always been some sort of door to a more true
world. Damn it, it sounds even worse/daff, as I try to expres myself.

Anyway, please speak up!