21st September 2013, 10:54 AM
Tool Wrote:It's the primary data that's important. In the form of archaeology in the ground that primary data is vulnerable and disappearing. If it is excavated and recorded as best we can with our current technologies then at least a facsimile of that data is available for interpretation in the future.
My point was that we are not even using the full range of resources and technology currently available......most preservation by record is the bare minimum and the not the full Monty.... ask anyone who has ever tried to reconstruct a site from the archive record alone
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