When I was a child, I didn’t want to be “Normal” Although my family didn’t take me to many museums I loved them. I’ve never been happier than lurking around a good museum or art gallery. I was never interested in the “New Stuff” but have always looked for the oldest of the old. I got chances to go on digs throughout school, uncovering part of the floor of a Roman Villa and, on another occasion finding bone flutes. Oh, it’s not just human-made things that fascinate me it’s rocks and geology, and more about tectonics and plates, volcanoes, and natural disasters. I was talked out of trying that as a career path, with teachers and parents saying it’s not a well-paying career.
Years on, I think a lot of humanities problems can be resolved by looking to the past, and I am seriously interested in pursuing this option. After all my parents let me study Musicology (now there is a dead-end career path!) Yet it taught me to study. If you can study one subject you can study anything even if you don’t have a natural affinity with it.
One of my key interests at the moment is going against the grain again, I don’t believe that our earliest ancestors in the UK where indeed hunter-gatherers as we have been told, there is enough evidence to say that they set up homesteads and farmed, be it fishing, farming or even just building things. I believe we have been hoodwinked.
Marcus, has been involved in Internet applications since the dawn of time, He has managed teams, managed companies and managed an Autistic household too.
He has a massive interest in Scifi and fantasy novels, cooking, Amateur Radio and the Weather as well as many other subjects. Marcus has a Doctorate in Musicology, and is a lifetime scholar. If Marcus doesn't know the answer he will definitely find it!
