16th February 2013, 07:19 PM
Following the analogy of the stratigraphy/landscape component of archaeology, once finds have been preserved 'by record', i.e. a report, drawings, photos, any scientific tests etc, why are they being kept at all? There seems to be some presumption that they are more important than their context, despite the fact that, in general, their only value is to provide information about that context (which it has been fine to destroy and merely preserve by record...)
...think you can see where I'm going with this, even if I'm making a b***s of saying it...
...think you can see where I'm going with this, even if I'm making a b***s of saying it...