If you were to record the buyers of such items then future generations could
perhaps track these folks (and their purchases) for any future intellectual
venture that may arise....


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> From:         Carl Barna[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
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> Hi -
>
> You could say this about a lot of mass produced items, not just bottles.
> Do we include Civil War buttons, canon or musket balls?  Will there be a
> commitee who meets to decide which artifact classes to include?
>
> Not a bad idea, though.  How many of these mass produced, standardized
> items do we need?  Museums could use the money and it might help curb pot
> hunting abuses.
>
> Jump back.....
>
> Carl Barna
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> Bill Lockhart wrote:
>
> >Another possibility is to sell off all the surplus artifacts to
> >collectors and use the resulting money to finance legislation agains
> >pothunting.
> >(Before the hate mail starts pouring in, this is inteded as humor)
>
>
> I'm for it, sort of.
> What if we were to give redundant artifacts (I'm thinking of whole, late
> 19th-century glass bottles, which we have in abundance) to museums? They
> could sell the stuff off and thereby:
> 1. reduce the retail value of these items and make pothunting less
> attractive,
> 2. provide some income to museums, and
> 3. free up some space in archaeological facilities.
>
> I'm totally in agreement with JHB concerning slag and clinker (nice to
> know
> there's another clinker fetishist out there), but industrially made
> bottles
> are a different kettle of fish. They are essentially identical and take up
> a lot of room in a box.
>
> I await the fallout.
>
> Adrian Praetzellis
> Sonoma State University
>