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To: Doc Bones who wrote (98998)5/24/2003 5:13:29 AM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500
 
are we seeing the triumph of the market place over the slow-moving academic?


I think there is a lot of "Oh, don't touch those priceless shards of Sumerian Pottery until I get a grant to spend the summer gridding them out and removing them with brush in hand!" Why shouldn't some local make a buck off them if he can? They just end up in some Museum's storage room. I can hear the "Oh, we are losing priceless knowledge", comments already. Don't think so.



To: Doc Bones who wrote (98998)5/27/2003 2:07:03 PM
From: Brian Sullivan  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Material from Iraq, which archaeologists said was fairly limited before the 1991 war, grew so prevalent that cuneiform tablets are even now regularly advertised on e-bay, and can sell for less than $100.

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