7th September 2011, 01:45 PM
tmsarch Wrote:I'm not sure what you're trying to suggest here - surely it is the other way round, consultants trying to get poorer sampling strategies past the curatorial archaeologist...:face-stir:. As a development control archaeologist I don't have to get anything past consultants, they have to get things past me. If I have asked for a specific sampling strategy then I'd expect it to be delivered - there'd have to be a damned good reason not to. That being said a sampling strategy has to be just that - a strategy, designed to answer questions and provide meaningful and useful data. It doesn't necessarily mean sampling everything - that would be no strategy at all. I'd love to know what this university's sampling strategy involved and why it wouldn't happen on a commercial excavation - perhaps you'd care to elaborate?
i stand by what i said - i've seen mounties crumble when faced with an experienced consultants argument
100% excavation - thats my favourite strategy
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers