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Fri, 1 Dec 2000 03:34:10 -0500
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Selling bottles or any artifacts violates Ethics statements of all the major
organizations. The big issue in "culling" is what to do with the fragments,
not whole bottles.

I always hear the prehistorians arguing that we ought to dump all the white
historic ceramics. They are ignorant of the wide range of glaze changes,
molding models, and other elements that make those sherds so valuable to
historic archaeologists. This line of reasoning is like throwing away all the
flaked stone that is not arrowpoints.

Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.

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