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bladup Dec 3, 2012 15:52:47
Replying to Evergreen Dazed

The only real problem i have with archaeologists is the digging and destruction, as there are so many ways of finding things out without all that destruction, and there will be even more in the future, we should stop now and leave them as much as we can, at least this would show we can collectively think ahead [to them and their new technologies] and not just about ourselves.

E Evergreen Dazed
Evergreen Dazed Dec 3, 2012 15:55:55
Replying to bladup

bladup wrote:
The only real problem i have with archaeologists is the digging and destruction, as there are so many ways of finding things out without all that destruction, and there will be even more in the future, we should stop now and leave them as much as we can, at least this would show we can collectively think ahead [to them and their new technologies] and not just about ourselves.
I think there are very few excavations these days (apart from development) as the thinking is exactly that - leave it for less destructive future techniques/technologies.

T thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Dec 3, 2012 16:00:48
Replying to bladup

Agreed with that. Just look at LiDar, there'll be loads of new sites identified from that without a spade being turned. Although it's true that some questions are only answered by digging at the present time, that doesn't mean that won't be capable of being answered without digging in the future.

The exception, regretfully, is rescue excavations where stuff is about to be destroyed anyway (especially if the Tories pursue the relaxation of planning laws).

As an aside, I must say that I'm bored rigid of Stonehenge's continuing pull as the black hole at the centre of the known universe. Aren't there any other sites in Britain?