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 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!
