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Geoff Carver <[log in to unmask]>
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HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:59:16 -0500
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isn't it some sort of version of "mitigation" (in that term's real
sense [minimizing impact], not the one CRM seems to have usurped
[excuse for excavating])?

Quoting Rick Affleck <[log in to unmask]>:

> Like Chris Borstel, I'm not certain I understand quite how the
> principle of
> least effect/effort applies to site formation processes. Occam's
> Razor did
> spring to mind, however--that the simplest explanation of a
> particular
> phenomenon is the best. Perhaps Ms. Marlatt will enlighten us.
>
> Rick Affleck
>
>




geoff carver
SUNY buffalo
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~gjcarver/

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