<HTML>In response to Mikey . . .
The theorist in question was the Swiss Johann Jakob Bachofen, whose <i>Mother Right</i> appeared in 1861 (and is still cited by eco-feminist writers).
He's mentioned in the collection <i>Nationalism, Politics, and the Practice of Archaeology</i> (which contains an essay by Trigger, hence my confusion).
Bachofen is quoted as to this effect:<blockquote>There are two roads to knowledge - the longer, slower, more aduous road of rational combination and the shorter path of the imagination, traversed with the force and swiftness of electricity. Aroused by direct contact with ancient remains, the imagination grasps the truth at one stroke, without intermediary links. The knowledge acquired in this second way is infinitely more living and colorful than the products of the rational understanding.</blockquote>I find this strikingly reminiscent of things that Hancock has said (about Tiwanaku, for example). My impression is that Hancock, Bauval and West all rate their intuitions rather highly.</HTML>
