Contemporary History Projections
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"Historians should of course strive to be true to the past", writes John Tosh in The Pursuit of History; "the question is, which past?" (20). He emphasises the fact that the writing of history involves poring through a virtually limitless quantity of documents and physical artifacts that at least initially are all potentially valuable sources from which to construct an historical narrative. There is no objective history, except that contained within the actual surviving accounts and relics. But how do we know that the surviving records are accurate and truthful, or exactly what function some implement of unknown purpose was used for? The reality is that history is an art, although Tosh places the discipline somewhere between the humanities and the social sciences. Because for all the scientific accuracy, rigor, and meticulous care that an historian might bring to a study of a particular time and place, his judgements of function, cultural meaning, and even chronological sequence may at best be based on educated guesses, logical inferences, and reasonable assumptions - all of which might be wrong. For example, the first archeologists who excavated the Mayan ruins in Southern Mexico and Central America might have assumed that the large plazas with sculpted rings above them were temples, or had some utilitarian use. With the later discovery of paintings and sculpture depicting ball players they deduced it was a sporting arena. But only with the relatively recent deci
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