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antiquarianism is alive and well. - Taverna Cat - 27th May 2007
Morning from Greece...
Can I just say that I do not, in any way, shape or form, advocate the use of crappy methodology just so we don't look patronising in foreign countries. I just object to the presumption that we Brits - and only we Brits - know how to excavate 'properly' and that we need to take our crusade to the clueless foreign natives. I personally have no intention of adopting crappy methodology any time soon. I excavate the way I understand and with methodologies which work best for the site in question.
And...
[u]4. Greek style âgive it all one context number and hope for the bestâ (or so we are led to believe by TC).</u>
.... it's the Americans in the Athenian Agora who do this, not the Greeks. Each trench/area/locus is given a context number on a weekly basis and the material removed in buckets during that week, all bear this number. Supervisors make their observations in notebooks.
Anyhow, I'm off for some Greek coffe, followed by a trip to the DIY store for a new trowel...
[8D]
antiquarianism is alive and well. - Taverna Cat - 29th May 2007
I seem to have stunned you all into silence/shock at the horror of weekly contexts..?!
:face-huh:
antiquarianism is alive and well. - Smaze - 29th May 2007
Not stunned, but very intrigued about weekly contexts, only the Americans could surley dream that up, yet it sort of reminds me of when i was literaly given a trench plan on the back of a fag packet, showing the proposed trench location, tied in by three trees and told to located, (the location just happen to be in the middle of a wood), by a very a high up director of the BM.
antiquarianism is alive and well. - Matthew Ginnever - 29th May 2007
I was once given a couple of empty fag packets to use as small finds containers. As 'student labour' I was kept out of such tiresome duties as recording, so im not entirely sure how contexts and planning were worked out on site, but I do know I never filled a context sheet in once. I was also told by the director that "archaeology has no intellectual integrety'. An odd thing for a professor in the same subject to say
antiquarianism is alive and well. - troll - 30th May 2007
Not stunned either I`m afraid-neither am I surprised anymore
..knowledge without action is insanity and action without knowledge is vanity..(imam ghazali,ayyuhal-walad)
antiquarianism is alive and well. - Beardstroker - 31st May 2007
Hmmm. And to think this morning we were all griping about the fact that my units recording system hasn't really been updated much, since about 1994.
Things could be a great deal worse, I suppose.:face-huh: