Actually, Jeff and LPorter, you are both correct in one sense. Archaeologists
are often responsible for allowing destruction by electing excavation rather
than preservation. A burning issue out here in California is the secondary
issue of dumping artifact collections after the project approval, report is
accepted, bulldozers are rolling, and paychecks have been cashed. The argument
given is there is no storage space for all those artifacts, and, historic
artifacts are much the same anyway, so why not just keep one example of each artifact
and dump the rest? The irony of allowing site destruction, then collection
destruction, should not be lost on the gravestone rubbers and bottle hunters out
there.

Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.