The origin of the Minoan double-axe symbol could be a combination of the very similar Proto-Elami. As archaeology is the science of nostalgia, we must ask ourselves what we want, or need from our perceived Minoans. We are contributing to a theory of the Minoans, making memories in the moment. Here, I take that idea further by reviewing the evidence from nearly a century of controlled experiments to show that past, present and future are one moment, the sum of all events at once, and those of us who dig for clues to Crete’s past are actually forming those clues in a parallel and exactly contemporary present, one of the myriad parallel constructions physicist Hugh Everett postulates in his many-worlds interpretation (MWI). I examine this notion in Minotaur, my critical biography of Evans, where I introduce the concept of relative archaeology, that is, the study of how the artefact is essentially entangled with its finder, the artefact being Knossos and Evans the finder. The removal of time as a constant leads physicist John Wheeler to declare, ‘The past is theory.’ Yet, most archaeologists happily continue to write history as though time and matter are absolutes, like Newton’s laws. Planck concludes that, ‘Mind is the matrix of all matter.’ Instead, quantum mechanics finds that consciousness plays an active and key role in forming the perceived world, which cannot exist without it. But, just as Arthur Evans starts to write a new, Minoan, chapter into history in 1900, Max Planck discovers quanta and initiates a new branch of physical science that provides a very different explanation of the perceived material world, one which does away with the classical concepts of time, space and passive involvement. This assumes that the machine chugs along on its own in a predictable manner as we observe it passively.
For example, in 1687 Sir Isaac Newton in his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which lays the foundations for modern classical mechanics, declares that ‘Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without regard to anything external.’ For Newton, time is a constant, no matter how you view it, and flows within the great machine that is our world. more Current archaeology prevails largely within the standard view of the perceived material world formulated during centuries of observation and set into physical laws early in the Enlightenment. Current archaeology prevails largely within the standard view of the perceived material world for.
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