13th June 2005, 03:49 PM
Surfdog666 is correct that the french went on a hack and slash policy but it was a last resort rescue/salvage excavation where minor stratigraphical details were irrelavent(most of the overburden filling/covering the buildings was destruction layers from the original earthquake/post destruction fire). The mosaics wouldn't have been found if everthing had been dug slowly and carefully like the OAU (and in a perfect world we all would) did. Which was more important to the world of archaeology/artistic history. There is obviously a certain degree of nationalistic animosity by the French against the British in general and they don't like people coming on to their projects or telling them what to do. As we all know destuction of Zeugma was something that shouldn't have happened.
Zeugma like Oetzi is one of the great archaeological discoveries that didn't benefit from people working together rather than for their own personal or professional reasons.
I know of several British archies who worked in Beirut in the 90's who also "got stuck in" in hack and slash mode in order to get the job done.
Little Tim
Zeugma like Oetzi is one of the great archaeological discoveries that didn't benefit from people working together rather than for their own personal or professional reasons.
I know of several British archies who worked in Beirut in the 90's who also "got stuck in" in hack and slash mode in order to get the job done.
Little Tim