4th July 2012, 03:56 PM
Dinosaur Wrote:on the other hand the results can be pretty amazing when you bother sorting it all out - little things like eg when a major Roman road was built, cuts through all the c*** in the literature. Helps having a big and well-dateable finds assemblage of course (good stuff, samian in large quantities, especially the signed stuff) and specialists who can be bothered to sort out all the residuality issues etc, but sorting out the strat in the first place definitely helps, you should try it one day
done a bit - also done other peoples and got entirely different sequences. in fact turned to statistical modelling to see how many variables there were! jackanory
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers