User talk:Jacobwhite/Thunderstone (New additions)

=Comments= This is looking nice! When it's complete, you should add this text to the current entry: Thunderstone (folklore). From an archaeological viewpoint, it would be useful to have a section that outlines the main events and discoveries that led to revision of "scientific" explanations of thunderstones. This would include information collected during the Age of Discovery that revealed non-Western peoples were still practicing flintknapping and producing arrowheads, projectile points, flint tools, celts and other flaked lithic and ground stone artifacts similar or identical to those that had been identified as thunderstones. The discovery of these kinds of artifacts in archaeological contexts--especially Paleolithic ones--eventually resulted in the scientific explanation that these objects were crafted by humans and not the result of lightning or the activities of supernatural beings. Hoopes (talk) 15:18, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

In general, it's good style to keep the text of your hyperlinks as close to that of the actual Wikipedia entries as you can. That way, the reader has a better idea of where following that hypertext will take them. Hoopes (talk) 15:25, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Also, you have yet to include any references. Note that all of your statements of fact should be followed by footnotes to reliable source material. Hoopes (talk) 15:27, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

You should probably also make some changes to links on the existing Thunderstone (folklore) entry. For example, the current categories listed do not include Archaeology. Hoopes (talk) 18:42, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

To develop your article for this assignment, please set up a dedicated user subpage for it and save the link on your main userpage. You would do this by creating a name consisting of a backslash followed by the proposed article title (or "Draft" or any text). It should be coded like this: [[/Article title]]. Click on that link to create the new subpage, which will be created at User:Student username/Article title. You can cut the content you've written below, save it, and then continue by clicking on that link. You can then transclude your working draft subpage onto your main userpage so it's visible from there by adding to the main userpage somewhere. (This is a neater way to organize your User page.) After you're done working on the sections here, you can either copy-and-paste or merge them with the exisiting entry on Thunderstone (folklore). Hoopes (talk) 18:36, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

I think you've done a really nice job with this, especially with regard to fleshing out the story of how the "thunderstone" hypothesis shifted to acceptance of these objects as having been: 1) made by human hands, and 2) deposited in very ancient times. The revision of interpretations of thunderstones played a major role in acceptance of long geological chronologies and was a central part of debates between theologians (especially Biblical literalists) and scientists in the 18th century. Hoopes (talk) 21:50, 2 November 2010 (UTC)