This is a good idea, esp. since the "production costs" for high-quality
color images on the net beat any sort of publication, and distribution
costs are nil--there for those who want/need them.  But, who will start?
And, given that us archaeologists like nothing better than to argue
typologies (witness this recent debate), whose typology will we post?  Will
we let all of them duke it out?




At 09:55 AM 8/7/99 -0700, you wrote:
>At 07:01 AM 8/7/99 -0500, Ned wrote:
>>...May I suggest that the national and
>>international archaeological journals should start publishing
>>well-illustrated articles that feature ceramic classification? ...
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>Ah, but that is where the internet can shine!  What is needed is major
>journals, archaeological societies, or universities to commit to posting
>and maintaining sites with well illustrated, described, and dated artifact
>assemblages.  Obviously this would need to be backed up with archival paper
>copies on file.
>But *somebody* will still need to create and define the classifications and
>write the reports!
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>Mary Ellin D'Agostino, PhD, RPA
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>Archaeological Research Facility
>University of California
>Berkeley, CA 94720-1076
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