The site is on Ferry Farm. Which is a park, charges admission, has a  
full time archaeological staff and lab, and shouldn't have a problem  
with looters. Don't know why they waited until now to make the  
announcement, when they were telling visitors they had IDd the house  
when I was there in May. May have to do with the 4th. May just be that  
they finally have enough data to go public. It is not unusual for an  
"official" announcement to be well after the actual discovery. Want to  
get all the data organized, etc........

On Jul 2, 2008, at 4:48 PM, Jerry Schaefer wrote:

> How come?  Archaeologists often wait until all the field work is  
> complete and the area is backfilled or protected before making a  
> news release in order to prevent looting, especially if it is a high- 
> profile project such as this.
>
> Jerry Schaefer
>
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