17th May 2010, 01:47 PM
Yeah right on. On one side I hate the idea of unskilled enthusiast diggers getting their mitts on sensitive and important archaeological remains without proper supervision (one to one I would say). After all aren't we supposed to be preserving in-situ? It seems from my very little experience of training/enthusiast/amature excavations that it is entirely dependant on how sharp or bothered the person running it is whether vital information is destroyed or made up.
To follow on fro RedEarth, you wouldn't let an untrained pilot loose on commercial flights.......nor would the scientific community take a physics paper claiming cold fusion seriously if it was published by enthusiasts!
However, it IS important that the information is disseminated to the general public as thats what we are doing, isn't it?
To follow on fro RedEarth, you wouldn't let an untrained pilot loose on commercial flights.......nor would the scientific community take a physics paper claiming cold fusion seriously if it was published by enthusiasts!
However, it IS important that the information is disseminated to the general public as thats what we are doing, isn't it?