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[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

If only they started the headline with "Some" and removed all ambiguity

[-] AppaYipYip@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It shouldn't say "Some", it should say "British" because if you read the article this seems to be a trend across British iron age communities.

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

But Britishers weren't around back then, time travellers notwithstanding, because the land wasn't Britain yet. Furthermore, using "British" in place of "Some" would mitigate the problem but not solve it- owing to that the implication is that the set of Iron Age men were not homogenous. Reducing them to a subset, regardless of the name, still implies that the subset, now, is homogenous. No homo.

[-] AppaYipYip@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

So not trying to argue, just have a genuine conversation. Talking from an American perspective, British implies the British Isles (place) to me and not the people (who I honestly have no idea when they lived or currently live there??). I'm not familiar with any other name for the isles (again speaking as an American).

Also, I think (or hope) that most people would understand and any research into the Iron Age is only showing a survival bias that may not indicate the whole population in an area. However, I think it's fair to state that if you see a trend across multiple sites in roughly the same time period, it indicates a larger cultural practice in that area because we are only seeing a small amount of surving evidence. For this reason, I think "some" is too broad.

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