From Alan Watson
The letter from Howard Barnes about applying the label “religious” to unexplained ancient buildings (7 December 2013, p 33) brings to mind British archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler.
In the 1950s TV show Animal, Vegetable or Mineral? Wheeler was asked to explain what a “ritual object” was. He replied that it was a term used by archaeologists to describe something when they had no idea what it was.
Pollença, Mallorca, Spain
