24th October 2007, 06:35 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by drpeterwardle
The legal definition of archaeology that must prevail is the one in the Pocket Oxford Dictionary available in 1990.
Why? Why Oxford? Why the pocket edition for goodness' sake?
Your declared sympathy for 'the architect' is rather obscure as well. Am I to infer that you know more than I about the case mentioned, or do you agree with the inflammatory and erroneous statements in the original post?
Oh, and to answer Host's questions, he is not right, he does not have a point. Archaeology is the study of the past through material culture; no more, most certainly no less.