21st October 2012, 09:39 AM
I have often wondered why we presume that future generations will be at all interested in archaeology in the way that we are. Who knows if in a hundred years any one will actually care. Preservation in situ is short hand for "cannot be bothered to spend the time, effort, money etc needed".
If the past is another country the future is another planet
If the past is another country the future is another planet