9th September 2011, 11:04 AM
Dinosaur Wrote:Intrigued as to how an office bod like yourself would know good excavation standards? - oh, and I can't repeat on here what one of the people in question (who's a b***dy good field archaeologist who I've had the pleasure to work with occasionally over the last 20 or so years) said about you :face-stir:
Oh, and where is this site that was 100% excavated? Never seen that in 30+ years. In fact all research excavations I've ever worked on that were not destruction-motivated have deliberately left bits unexcavated (often quite large bits) for future investigation - its always been considered extremely poor practice to totally destroy a site purely for research purposes in case methods/techniques improve in the future.....but then maybe you're planning on changing all that....
little bit prickly today are we?
this office bod was over 25 years in the field as if that makes any difference - and i have no evidence that you or any of your coterie can dig for s**t, you certainly cant be very widely ranged if you havent done urban - maybe your superiors keep you in fields to keep you out of trouble:face-stir:
and it is quite easy to dig 100% of the area selected for research if the research strategy has been properly formulated - though thats probably not something you have ever worried about according to your previous posts. maybe its pooor practice to let you destroy 100% of a site
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers