My philosophy about such things is not to box them up in a museum somewhere 
but if they have little or no context give them to some people and see then 
what they do with them and record what happens and what if any site is 
formed and how. if it doesn’t get context one time try try again....


CB

-----Original Message----- 
From: geoff carver
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 2:36 PM
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Subject: Re: WWII plane found deep in the Sahara

Good question. I knew someone who looked into “aircraft archaeology” as a 
project. Basically, you can’t do anything about “patterns of human 
 behaviour” from crashed aircraft, but in some cases, these things are the 
only remaining evidence of certain elements of technology. I’ve seen P-40s 
in museums, but there are a number of aircraft of which the only known 
examplars are from wrecks.



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What’s the difference between a Clovis point found in a farmer’s field and a 
P-40 found in the desert??