What were the problems?
n In case this presentation appears to be unduly
positive, in the light of modern
scholarship there are also many problems
with the German-Swedish school
n Ironically, most of these are not the
problems social anthropologists
charged them with
n The most curious one is that most of
these authors were not
interested in archaeology, except in so much as there were occasional records of material culture
items they were studying
n Even more strangely, they were not
interested in linguistics
and make almost nothing of the sometimes evident connections with linguistic families
nThey
seem to have been blinded by the ‘cultural’ layer ideology