18th September 2013, 01:49 PM
P Prentice Wrote:nope - dont why you even think that. surely it is best for an archaeologist to be employed to dig it? surely it is best that it is rescued from the plough, looters, unit, shifty consultants, bad builders etc asap
I nope your nope.
Yes stuff get looted, stuff get destroyed by the plough but more is destroyed by archaeologists (or the unscrupulous non-archaeologists like unit - ouch)
Its far better for everyone involved to avoid significant archaeology under a commercial project.
Anyone involved in commercial archaeology will know that we perform rescue archaeology. Stuff gets missed, lost and destroyed; whether its during assessment, mitigation recommendations, sample excavation strategies and definitely during watching briefs. And don't get me started on recording large complicated sites in a thin pipe-trench width excavation.
Under your premise, everything would be destroyed by them pesky 21st century treasure hunters, nothing left for us 23rd century palaeotachyonologists or palaeomolecularologists.