5th February 2007, 08:47 AM
agreed that some volunteers take it very carefully with skeletons and can afford to spend the time. However, having been involved with post-ex of tomb excavations run as volunteer digs in the Near East, if the sampling strategy is to dig it in arbitary spits and all the bone is just pulled out because everyone thinks, including the directors, that it is animal bone...I understand that Dr Rose is an osteo but I don't believe that everyone on the site will be and so if he wasn't around at the time that a tomb was being dug... and that's even leaving out the issue of do we really want to encourage the excavation of tombs that are not otherwise under threat?
++ i spend my days rummaging around in dead people ++
++ i spend my days rummaging around in dead people ++