PIRAMIDI BOSNIACHE

First, let me apologize to the readers for my writing in English. I'm able to read -not so easily- Italian, with a little bit of help from the Google translator; and Italian construction of the sentences is not so different from French. But I'm totally unable to write in Italian, and I think that posting a Google-translated post would be worse than posting in English.

About my identity: Mr. Debertolis, it's too easy to make some wild claims about my supposed identity without offering any evidence. Either you give this identity -and I very much doubt that you know it, judging by your extravagant rants- and support your claim with some evidence; or your claims will just appear for what they probably are: a way of deflecting the discussion and escaping some questions of actual interest.

You say:


So, incorrect statements about the stecci become a "poetic license"? Saying that human remains were never found with the stecci, or that there is no information available about the quarries or the craftmen ("Invece, non esiste alcuna documentazione di una cava dalla quale queste pietre siano state estratte o quale laboratorio artigiano le abbia scolpite"), these are just "inaccuracies"? Or do you consider that your public, here or on your site, as 'ordinary people who do not have a sufficient culture in this field', do not need or do not merit a more 'accurate' information?

Frankly, I'm quite amazed: even if I tease you about the 'pyramids', I consider you a real scientist, unlike people like Mr. Osmanagic or Mr. Djurdjevic. How could you write articles on stecci and put them on what is claimed a "popular science site" (“un sito scientifico divulgativo”) whithout checking your facts, trusting the fantasies of a “Croatian [pseudo-]historian” and not having read a single basic archaeological work about these stecci?


Instead of searching for this book in Sarajevo markets, you should have typed “Sefik Beslagic” in any search engine: google.fr/search?sclient=psy&hl=fr&source=hp&q=%22sefik+beslagic%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=%22sefik+beslagic%22&pbx=1&biw=1024&bih=614&cad=cbv
The second link points to the downloadable file of “Stecci – Kultura i Umjetnost”. You can also find on Scribd.com other works by Beslagic, including his 500 pages catalogue of stecci (“Stecci - Katalosko-topografski pregled”). There is also a recent (2004) re-edition of his work “Leksikon Stecaka” (Encyclopaedia of Stecci), with a preface by the archaeologist Lidija Fekeza (one of the few professional archaeologists in Bosnia, specialist of Middle Ages archaeology, and one who fought to preserve the Bosnian heritage at Zemaljski Museum during the war, at a time when Mr. Osmanagic was travelling as a tourist in Central America: quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jii/4750978.0003.109?rgn=main;view=fulltext). Let me quote a few words from her preface:

“However, when we had already reached that degree of knowledge, in these areas at the end of the twentieth century occurred another time in which appeared new ideological theses on the stecci, but now for new purposes. Therefore the decision of IP "Svjetlost" to publish the Encyclopaedia of Stecci is to be welcomed. The Encyclopaedia is a concise personal choice of the author among his entire work. The book appears at a time when the era of myths is returning, and when the achieved results are 'forgotten'.”

(in Bosnian: "Medjutim, kada se vec doslo do tog stepenog saznanja, na ovim prostorima je krajem XX veka nastupilo neko drugo vrijeme u kojem se potezu prvobitne ideologizirane teze o steccima, ali sada u nove svrhe. Zato treba pozdraviti poduhvat IP "Svjetlost", na izdavanju Leksikon Stecaka. U Leksikonu je sazet osobni izbor autora iz njegovog cjelokupnog rada. Knjiga se pojavljuje u periodu kada se vrijeme mitova ponovo vraca, i kada se "zaboravlja" na dosegnute rezultate.")

Irna

PS. Sorry for the broken links, it seems the system doesn't want me to put actual links...