23rd September 2010, 03:39 PM
Quote:[SIZE=3]Something isn't good just because lots of people can't discriminate.[/SIZE]
Steve
Quote:[SIZE=3]Therefore every museum in the land should be held in contempt by Archaeologists, despite the fact that museums, which are for the most part funded by the public are showing them what they want to see.[/SIZE]
Mike.T
It all about curation. I get up in the morning and say that I am an archaeologist. I believe that there is a demand for my product and see that product as being produced from observations made in context. Steve gets paid to get up in the morning to believe that the archaeology belongs to the state. A sanctimonious bureaucracy has grow up from this situation which demands an archive where things like the details of the project bureaucracy become part of that archive and as hosty has pointed out even a project that found, in his opinion, nothing was for what ever reason seen as unsatisfactory, by some dubiously appointed authority, for curation. But this authority has absolutely no responsibility to the ?museum?. The thing that could be a death mask proves conclusively in a democratic, what the public wants world that they want shiny things and not hostys seven pillars of nothing there. The state should stop inventing curators who don?t live in museums who don?t have the responsibility of storage and entropy to deal with, but who think that their standards and guidance?s are justification in themselves.
Unfortunately archaeologists also have a long way to go to take over the museums from the bunch of charlatans who control them. The evolution of commercial archaeology not only created the pusedo curator it also cut archaeologists off from museums.
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Isn't Archaeology is the study of man though surviving material remains, of which this Helmet is one ? Presumably once the findspot has been identified Geophysical survey could possibly reveal an unknown Roman settlement, one that wouldn't have been discovered if not for the MD user.
lets say the md lied but a unknown roman settlment was still found in the spot that was not where the MD found it. That would be spooky
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