24th June 2011, 11:42 PM
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yet - in this BunnyCave the shadows are still dancing.
even this :
“There is another aspect of our association with rescue work which should be noted. It is that archaeologists tend often to be identified with those conservationists who wish to preserve anything of antiquity. However, as archaeologists we must be aware that change is inevitable and that it is impossible impracticable and indeed undesirable for our
landscape to be fossilized at one particular stage of its development.
On the other hand it is true that redevelopment at the moment removes so much so quickly that we must be vigilant to conserve those aspects of the landscape which are of particular merit or illustrate particular features of our history, but ubiquitous preservation is as sterile as ubiquitous destruction. Constructive planning is imperative today to cope with landscape change on an unprecedented scale, and if not influenced by aesthetic, historic and humane considerations
it will unknowingly destroy what we have inherited.
Archaeologists have a role to play in this planning process. We must not just have a narrow vision solely concerned
with the underground aspects of archaeology, but join ourselves with those who see our total landscape as much a result of art as of nature and seek to conserve and develop it as a pleasing and economic environment for our successors.” R.T. ROWLEY / W. FOWLER[SIZE=1] CBA Group 9 : 4, 1974[/SIZE]
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yet - in this BunnyCave the shadows are still dancing.
even this :
“There is another aspect of our association with rescue work which should be noted. It is that archaeologists tend often to be identified with those conservationists who wish to preserve anything of antiquity. However, as archaeologists we must be aware that change is inevitable and that it is impossible impracticable and indeed undesirable for our
landscape to be fossilized at one particular stage of its development.
On the other hand it is true that redevelopment at the moment removes so much so quickly that we must be vigilant to conserve those aspects of the landscape which are of particular merit or illustrate particular features of our history, but ubiquitous preservation is as sterile as ubiquitous destruction. Constructive planning is imperative today to cope with landscape change on an unprecedented scale, and if not influenced by aesthetic, historic and humane considerations
it will unknowingly destroy what we have inherited.
Archaeologists have a role to play in this planning process. We must not just have a narrow vision solely concerned
with the underground aspects of archaeology, but join ourselves with those who see our total landscape as much a result of art as of nature and seek to conserve and develop it as a pleasing and economic environment for our successors.” R.T. ROWLEY / W. FOWLER[SIZE=1] CBA Group 9 : 4, 1974[/SIZE]
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