sorry for hitting a few too many raw nerves out there and starting "the end of
the world" thread - my original intent was to present the views from the
european press and ask what this all means for archaeology/CRM in general -
        would it be worth studying how politics makes otherwise objective
scientists start flaming each other out? i'm just finishing an article studying
how german archaeologists debated private excavation firms (partly through
ignorance, since no one from the states, canada, england, or elsewhere with
experience in the matter was invited to attend the main discussions), and there
are parallels in the venom and fury of the discussion - which seems somewhat
paradoxical for a discipline where the point is to somehow understand "foreign"
(other culture and/or removed in space and time) culture...
        anyway: sorry for leading discussions off-topic -

geoff carver
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