Appearence and tactics of early 5th century Saxons.

[Robert Vermaat]

Robert, Richard Pryor was the American comedian
who appeared in Superman III. FrancisPryor is the archaeologist under discussion. :lol:

shock:

No, actually, that's a pretty accurate description. And I
think you'll find that most archaeologists agree with it. Francis Pryor is
a rather mediocre prehistoric archaeologist who is rather opinionated,
and who happens to be the President of the Council for British
Archaeology - probably because nobody else wanted the job. :roll:

Mike, that is also a derogatory remark. Who are you to decide that Pryor is mediocre or not? As to opinionated.. I know more of them.

Yes, the TV show was bad. And no, the book says exactly the same things

Nonsense, I've heard you say things about the show that are in no way represented in the book.

Oh, I see! So it's okay for you to criticise Pryor's book,
but not Paul... :twisted:

Mike, Paul was talking about Pryor himself. Everybodey is entitled to have a go at a book or a TV series for all I care, but i detest comments about a person. Hence my warning: discuss the subject, not the man! And yes, that's sudenly me as a moderator speaking.

Paul was criticising Pryor's attitude, not his right to speak.
And you have criticised Pryor's book whilst telling Paul he hasn't the
right to criticise the TV series

Mike you're confusing the issue here. My answer to Paul was about the apparent lacking right of Pryor (as an archaeologist specialising in prehistoric archaeology) to even speak about post-Roman times. Well, for all i know Pryor is not infallibel, but I never would deny him the right to speak about archaeology of other periuods. After all, a farmer around 100 BC and a farmer around 600 AD are not lightyears apart. The least ione could do is have a good look at his arguments and refute them if possible. But so far, all I'm hearing is stuff like 'he should keep his moth shut' and similar unscientific comments.

Frankly, Paul and I talked about this in a PM so as not to disrupt the discussion. I call on you to do the same if you want, or else email me, you know where to send it.