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Date: | Thu, 27 Oct 1994 14:18:34 EDT |
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Mark Landon fears for the pot, the site and the discipline. I fear
for my sanity and attention span sitting through endless paper
presentations about bells and whistles. I recall one experience in
which highly paid technotypes pulled wires, sled, radars and
doohickies galore over a site while, at the same time, a small crew
dug shovel-test pits. After the bells-and-whistles crowd send their
data tapes to computer central and, months later, got back their
analyzed and enhanced dot-density plots, they were able to point to a
few "anomalies" under the ground. A handful of undergrads pointed out
that anomaly 1 was a 15' sdquare cellar hole filled ca. 1640, anomaly
2 was the floor of a Civil War offier's winter hut, anomaly 3 was a
late middle woodland hearth, and there were bunches more features for
which no squiggles appeared on the graphs. When it's useful use it,
otherwise, lose it.
An old fart.
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