3rd April 2014, 06:35 PM
hmmm...
total area of topsoil stripped by machine per annum= xxx,xxx ,
retrieval rate of finds reported/archived as 'topsoil' from comic-ercial projects = xx finds/xx m striped,
group by factors (urban vs rural, arable vs pasture, alluvium vs colluvium, ...)
create predictive estimates... .... .... ..... ....
compare with PAS data grouped in similar way....
bake on low for xx years, and ... ... ... ... ... ... .. ... .
(probaly realise that it is all very contextual, and that minor damage to undesignated ploughed archaeolgoical sites while reporting to PAS is totaly insignificant compared to total loss of distribution/quantity data when comic-ercial sites are machine stripped...'oh its just ploughsoil find' we hear > well us 'researchers' need that presence/absence/abundance data to interpret issues larger than the one single site some random company or other happens to be currently hacking-up! it is also fundementaly useful and basic primary archaeological data, btw)
total area of topsoil stripped by machine per annum= xxx,xxx ,
retrieval rate of finds reported/archived as 'topsoil' from comic-ercial projects = xx finds/xx m striped,
group by factors (urban vs rural, arable vs pasture, alluvium vs colluvium, ...)
create predictive estimates... .... .... ..... ....
compare with PAS data grouped in similar way....
bake on low for xx years, and ... ... ... ... ... ... .. ... .
(probaly realise that it is all very contextual, and that minor damage to undesignated ploughed archaeolgoical sites while reporting to PAS is totaly insignificant compared to total loss of distribution/quantity data when comic-ercial sites are machine stripped...'oh its just ploughsoil find' we hear > well us 'researchers' need that presence/absence/abundance data to interpret issues larger than the one single site some random company or other happens to be currently hacking-up! it is also fundementaly useful and basic primary archaeological data, btw)