So called 'archaeologists'

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3rd January 2006, 11:49 PM

yes, long live the volunteer, but only if they know what they are doing. washing finds may seem superficially easy, but if you don't know anything about the stuff you are washing before you dunk it in the water and scrub the life out of it...am constantly having to comment in burial catalogues that an individual may have had periosteal bone reactions but they have been scrubbed off during washing. same theory for that nice bit of prehistoric pot that has turned to gritty brown water...
there are a lot of very good, very keen and committed volunteers, but there are also the other kind as well and I often wonder what kinds of information we are losing because of ignorance of the needs of finds processing, things getting scrubbed to death, thrown away with the mud etc etc. Schemes of training would be fantastic, but for a lot of us there is simply not the time if we are going to get our own work done.

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So called 'archaeologists' - by troll - 10th November 2005, 04:45 PM

So called 'archaeologists' - by RedEarth - 28th December 2005, 08:10 PM

So called 'archaeologists' - by deepdigger - 28th December 2005, 10:21 PM

So called 'archaeologists' - by RedEarth - 29th December 2005, 10:57 AM

So called 'archaeologists' - by mercenary - 29th December 2005, 11:52 AM

So called 'archaeologists' - by RedEarth - 29th December 2005, 12:17 PM

So called 'archaeologists' - by mercenary - 29th December 2005, 01:01 PM

So called 'archaeologists' - by RedEarth - 29th December 2005, 02:37 PM

So called 'archaeologists' - by BAJR Host - 29th December 2005, 03:12 PM

So called 'archaeologists' - by deepdigger - 29th December 2005, 08:29 PM

So called 'archaeologists' - by muddyandcold - 30th December 2005, 03:23 PM

So called 'archaeologists' - by sniper - 3rd January 2006, 11:49 PM

So called 'archaeologists' - by troll - 3rd January 2006, 11:54 PM

So called 'archaeologists' - by sniper - 4th January 2006, 12:03 AM

So called 'archaeologists' - by Sparky - 5th January 2006, 05:24 PM

So called 'archaeologists' - by Sparky - 5th January 2006, 05:40 PM

So called 'archaeologists' - by muddyandcold - 20th January 2006, 10:38 PM

So called 'archaeologists' - by sniper - 20th January 2006, 11:12 PM

So called 'archaeologists' - by troll - 22nd January 2006, 10:17 PM

So called 'archaeologists' - by historic building - 23rd January 2006, 12:35 PM

So called 'archaeologists' - by troll - 24th January 2006, 12:11 AM

So called 'archaeologists' - by deepdigger - 29th January 2006, 09:21 PM

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