In a message dated 8/25/2007 2:05:07 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
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But it's  probably unfair to blame the excavators for their ignorance. 
Rather, their  mentors were at fault and all should work to correct these 
deficiencies. No  amount of behavioural, processual, post-processual or whatever, theory 
and  class work will correct flawed data by excavators who don't fully 
understand  the dirt.




Tim,
 
It also pays to work for a geologist who has a healthy distrust for  
archaeologist's explanations for soil development in archaeology sites. I worked  for 
such a guy for two years and it was really a learning experience. I kept  
scrambling in archaeology and old geology texts to defend my ideas and he tossed  
them back with equal vigor. This was pre-bioturbation theory.
 
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.



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