10th March 2006, 07:13 PM
oh, I didn't mean an archaeological unit going in with a machine, but commercial cemetery clearance, which happens all the time, not necessarily where it should...certainly quicker than archaeological excavation, if nothing else. I just think there tends to be a misheld belief among some that excavation is the beginning and the end of it and that we don't actually need to do anything once the excavation has ended. I still occasionally get asked "what happens to all these bodies when they've been dug up? Do they get reburied straight away?" Excavation, and then assessment, and analysis are only the start of the research process for skeletons, as for anything else, and developers should be made very aware of this...
++ i spend my days rummaging around in dead people ++
++ i spend my days rummaging around in dead people ++