1st June 2010, 11:12 PM
Golf balls! ha! i nearly cried. no really...but then this was to be expected after the sight, like a vision from the Victorian past, of tiny men on ropes, hurriedly welding up a MASSIVE iron box, then dropping it in the sea...couldn't they have thought about such a marvellous and revolutionary device in advance?...you know, just in case
......perhaps they had a nice stock pile of golfballs, shredded tyres and "heavy mud" prepared for just such an eventuality as Failure of Plan A (ie Drop MASSIVE Box in sea)..?
As every where, this enormous catastrophe shows how 'Economics' has fucked us, and our future descendent, all.
Preservation in situ is clearly meaningless if it results in the future inaccessibility of the site (e.g. under motorways/rafted multi-storey concrete base plates) - or if the remains are left in splendid isolation from their surrounding context.....equally preservation by record is meanigless if the records are poor or of limited future potential; if the original field investigation has been under resourced, or lead badly....
Either way records or actual remains must be Curated by a profession and by experts who are Informed, Assured and Empowered enough to act genuinely in the best interests of the future cultural knowledge and society at large.
Unionisation and an ambitious Charter for the future are an obvious route towards this end.
Legislation may only set the rules - archaeologists must play a good Team Game to win...
......perhaps they had a nice stock pile of golfballs, shredded tyres and "heavy mud" prepared for just such an eventuality as Failure of Plan A (ie Drop MASSIVE Box in sea)..?
As every where, this enormous catastrophe shows how 'Economics' has fucked us, and our future descendent, all.
Preservation in situ is clearly meaningless if it results in the future inaccessibility of the site (e.g. under motorways/rafted multi-storey concrete base plates) - or if the remains are left in splendid isolation from their surrounding context.....equally preservation by record is meanigless if the records are poor or of limited future potential; if the original field investigation has been under resourced, or lead badly....
Either way records or actual remains must be Curated by a profession and by experts who are Informed, Assured and Empowered enough to act genuinely in the best interests of the future cultural knowledge and society at large.
Unionisation and an ambitious Charter for the future are an obvious route towards this end.
Legislation may only set the rules - archaeologists must play a good Team Game to win...