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To: LindyBill who wrote (99002)	5/24/2003 5:52:09 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Brush in hand indeed. The most common response to dealing with a site when time and money are squeezed is the quite unscientific resort to shovel and backhoe. "Salvage archeology." Really popular here in the States when a road crew runs over some skull fragments of a couple Indians dead for 2000 years. If the artifacts are being recovered in such grand numbers, chances are it is a trash midden they're digging in. Otherwise the site would've been excavated and filled in with the truck loads of excess grant money the team would've probably recieved to get the site dug. I doubt these are "priceless". Derek

To: LindyBill who wrote (99002)	5/27/2003 8:59:06 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

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 It's more like "Blame America first for everything".... Meanwhile, in China english.peopledaily.com.cn some remarkable stuff is no doubt safely under water by now. Which might be for the best, as it'll be well preserved for some time to come. Incidentally, some of the bitterest academic infighting I've ever read about has come from archeology people. Research into human origins in Africa has been a real piece of high comedy in the genre; I could probably dig up some links though I haven't read up on the subject in a while.