27th February 2012, 01:21 PM
Unitof1 Wrote:I dont really care what other archaeologists do with their sites. I suppose that its a bit of a shame if they dont get a silly little one line in a journal or something but if nobody is going to pay for the product like the museums I cant see that it matters.
it's hardly worth doing archaeology in that case; notwithstanding the opportunity to cover oneself in glory, the main idea of a silly little one line is so that your peers have some comparative data there on paper in the Borsetshire Antiquities Journal, rather than trying to google HER and constantly getting http://girlvspig.com/ and wondering what the fuss is all about, when it's not even as good as http://conormchale.blogspot.com/ for archaeology...
onwards and upwards...
the real problem, imo, with the legacy jobs is that what i think is not alwways what the original excavator thought, and how to reconcile the two, when the data is missing, cos that wasn't of interest, but quality of work is frequently better. at least there's rarely colluvium on top of hills, and sections, which even if they don't explicitly show recuts etc. are well drawn enough that one can infer successfully. and do not have those floaters in the middle of the cut, touching nothing, like a stargate into another archaeology...
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