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. . . I consider all the thousands of wasted
hours and dollars that went into programming and analyzing which
might have more productively gone to reading, reflecting, fondling
artifacts, or digging another few squares.
 
Dan Mouer
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This might just be the nature of a maturing discipline.  In a mature field,
the same information is reanalyzed, often fruitlessly, time and time again.
 
This is not to say that with so many sites threatened by development a
different set of priorities might not be more usefull.
 
In history, documents concerning Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt will
continue to attract more reasearch than Polk, Garfield, and Harding.
 
Kenneth Gauck
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