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Sat, 26 Jun 1999 11:39:47 -0400
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Ned H. wrote:
>I have also seen entirely too many boring archaeologists who
>could write off King Tut's tomb without a second look, just because he was
>a relatively minor figure in Egyptian history.

How true. Seems to me that imagination is one of the most important tools
that we bring into the field. The idea of writing off entire classes of
sites because *we already have enough of those* is abhorrent to me, too.
Let's leave mechanical devices to the engineers.

Adrian Praetzellis
Sonoma State University

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