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Date: | Tue, 28 Nov 2000 06:02:10 -0500 |
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Seems to me that culling presumes both unimportance and uniformity. These
are both, by definition, personal decisions, loaded with potential for
abuse. The person responsible for culling needs a lot more imagination than
most of us possess.
"All bricks are alike," or "Nobody cares about that stuff" remind me of the
old days when Indian site archaeologists typically discarded "modern trash"
that could easily have been significant in today's terms.
How many sites, and how many artifacts, have been destroyed through the
ignorance or bias of professional archaeologists in positions of authority?
Only a few years ago, brickmaking sites, tin can-making sites, and historic
burials, were all considered unworthy of archaeological attention.
Considering the vast archaeological potential of these resources, one must
wonder how much was lost by "culling" in the past.
Ned Heite ([log in to unmask])
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