2nd September 2011, 09:11 PM
Some sense there i feel. Also - also ways useful to consider how different kinds of temporality can exist for the archaeologist > it is not always good to ask 'how old?', but rather 'is it the 'expected' age?' - there is a lot of potential routes in trying to produce 'absolute dates' >>> making the call as a specialist is difficult, when managers are obstructive ("this is not ivory tower academia", budgets/time-scales ridiculously small, and when half the site is already on the spoil heap...
worms, Worms, WORMS (and for good measure WORMS) - see Matthew Canti (English Heritage) on this for crucial info that every (so-called)professional archaeologist/temporal-contamination-remover should be aware of. Then think very hard about how a site is formed (remembering all the other critters and factors out there)
(amorphous charcoal, e.g. carbonised starchy material, is not uncommon in flots)
worms, Worms, WORMS (and for good measure WORMS) - see Matthew Canti (English Heritage) on this for crucial info that every (so-called)professional archaeologist/temporal-contamination-remover should be aware of. Then think very hard about how a site is formed (remembering all the other critters and factors out there)
(amorphous charcoal, e.g. carbonised starchy material, is not uncommon in flots)