25th May 2007, 01:23 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by Taverna Cat
... no stratigraphy was expected or found...
...the spit method worked for us in this instance...
Yes, but TC I'm sure you and your colleagues wouldn't have carried on blithely hacking through different sediments if you had found them. There's plenty of possible circumstances where (a) there isn't any strat, or (b) the strat has been destroyed, or © the strat is really, honestly impossible to observe (most posters could recall examples), but those circumstances are all very rare.
In any case, Troll was railing against the blithe hackers of world archaeology, making again the argument that we shouldn't tolerate people going abroad and employing standards that aren't permitted here. In a previous post he questioned what we should do about it ('not much' was the response, as I recall). This post is merely a note of caution. Personally, I think as many contract archaeologists as possible should go on foreign research excavations. It's an education on both sides.
Nice to hear from you again Troll, I look forward to disagreeing with you in the near future.