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Oh...dont worry Ron - I am basically ignoring the PI's grumbles and
doing a proper job of the analysis. He will have to magically Find
money some where.
But, I just wondered how Others do things (since we archys often live in
isolation). And wanted reasons to give...to justify Taking
Measurements...since "uh, because we just Do"...didnt go over too well.
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>From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>Behalf Of Ron May
>Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 4:08 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Management Interference in Standard Archaeology Procedures
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>Carol,
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>I am appalled at what I am reading. When people bid on jobs,
>they build in enough time to take the proper measurements and
>collect the data our profession requires. Why on earth would
>your supervisor at Jones & Stokes interfere with standard
>laboratory analysis? As to the luxury of time, I think your
>supervisor has lost the point of conducting comparative
>analysis with other relevant collections. The whole purpose of
>curating collections is so future researchers can study them,
>and this includes consultants. But collections cannot be
>dumped in sacks with zero measurements or catalog codes. This
>time is also built into contract proposals. Failure to consult
>other people's reports or the collections could render a
>deficiency in the report that could cause your client a
>significant delay or even kill the project. If, on the other
>hand, the reviewing agency is allowing poor quality work to
>pass over their desks, then shame on them. Proper
>documentation is standard procedure. Is your supervisor an
>archaeologist or a bean counter? What is he doing for
>conservation of the collections?
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>Moreover, I would like to add that 40-years ago people ran out
>to salvage collections in the path of bulldozers and then just
>dumped sacks of artifacts in museums with the misbegotten
>belief some future person would count, measure and make sense
>of the mess. But all that ended with the raft of federal and
>state laws and court decisions that defined the 1970s-1990s.
>No one fails to record basic data today. What happened to the
>Ph.D. archaeologist who assumed the management role of your company?
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>Ron May
>Legacy 106, Inc.
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