a long time ago, all that data was collected & recorded & archived somewhere 
(hint: the sun still never shines there) & basically disappeared...
right down the memory hole: as with schroediger's cat, it might as well have 
never existed...
now: if you record it, save it in a spreadsheet, put it on a webpage... it's 
going to be available to anyone who wants it; and nobody knows yet who wants 
it cuz nobody has really started looking at what happens to primary data, 
who uses it & where it goes, partly because there is so little available so 
far...
so your boss could have had a point up to a few years ago; now we have the 
potential to actually put a lot of that data to use, if only people would 
stop cutting corners & record & disseminate it in a format that that makes 
it easy to use...
i mean: why else do we spend money on all these fancy computers? just so we 
have a more expensive typewriter & can send e-mails to each other?
when does your boss start planning to actually do some comparative analysis 
with his data?
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Subject: Management Interference in Standard Archaeology Procedures


> Altho...my boss wouldn't see any point in measuring  them....apparently.