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Tim,
thanks for being polite. I'll keep it the same way.
I am an archaeologist and I understand that you may not know me. I opperate in small circles, obviously ones you're not part of.
I recognise that my opinions are not popular within the profession of archaeology. From my perspective I offer a voice of reason where too many loose canons are blasting away.
As for Virginia and Civil War archaeology I recommend you get caught on some recent work:
Moore, Lawrence E. and Gwen J. Hurst
2005 Medicine for the Troops: Glass from a Civil War Encampment in Centreville, Virginia. Quarterly Bulletin of the Archeological Society of Virginia 60(3): 150-176.
Larry Moore
Cultural Resource Manager
US Army Combat Training Center
Fort Hunter Liggett, California
Tim Thompson wrote:
Larry,
I'm going to try to be polite, but I assume from your post that you have
never had any professional training in Archaeology, or seen the various
codes of ethics published by both professional and responsibile amateur
organization. I strongly recommend you take some basic course work in
archaeology and review the ethics codes, and it will become very clear to
you why archaeologists become so upset about collectors. If they actually
collect, they do not help, they destroy a non-renewable resource base -- yes
even those plowed fields lose their contextual integrity when selectively
vacuum-cleaned by "hobbyists".
Consider the standard old canard about a vandal walking into a museum and
ripping the paintings off the well because he needed some canvas rags to
clean his house-painting brushes. "Gosh, I didn't mean any harm; they were
just hanging there!".
If you think this is sarcasm, please don't come to Virginia.
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