I really, really don't like one of the Associate Directors at Allaire Village. The other one, on the other hand, is really, really cool
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Jason what you need to do is set up some conviently placed garrote wire, then thered be an opening at your site for me! Yay! I'd be able to put my history degree to use instead of selling tickets to stupid tourists in Gettysburg! Oh wait... damn. *sigh* Why didn't they tell us when we signed up for history major that we'd be the bastard children of the eductational social structure?
Okay, first of all, hooray for trowels and all that such archaeological stuff! However, I would not recommond you digging further or pulling anymore pieces out of the ground. Call in some professional archaeologists (or a local college archaeo's department) so that exact provenience can be measured and recorded, checking for soil stuff, etc. Don't want to accidentally dig up a root cellar or fence post or anything. Archaeology is a destructive science, and if one is not careful, may permanently destroy a feature!
What pisses me off, mainly, is that there are so many human resources that could be tapped to conserve and educate in a high-quality manner, and the majority of sites seem to completely, utterly miss the mark.
Evening, my love! You should put up the pictures of the pieces you found. They really are intriguing. And just so everyone knows -- the rogue archaeology at Richmondtown was not a careless whim, but rather was necessitated by the fact that the site was never even excavated before a trench was plowed through it with a backhoe in order to hastily construct a foundation for a newly acquired 1830s house (long story). We just went looking through the piles of dirt and rubble that they nonchalantly dug up and dumped, and poked around the walls of the trench, salvaging what we could. Heck, we should take pictures of that stuff, too, and put it up!
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Okay, first of all, hooray for trowels and all that such archaeological stuff! However, I would not recommond you digging further or pulling anymore pieces out of the ground. Call in some professional archaeologists (or a local college archaeo's department) so that exact provenience can be measured and recorded, checking for soil stuff, etc. Don't want to accidentally dig up a root cellar or fence post or anything. Archaeology is a destructive science, and if one is not careful, may permanently destroy a feature!
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Other than that, I'm just speechless.
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You should put up the pictures of the pieces you found. They really are intriguing. And just so everyone knows -- the rogue archaeology at Richmondtown was not a careless whim, but rather was necessitated by the fact that the site was never even excavated before a trench was plowed through it with a backhoe in order to hastily construct a foundation for a newly acquired 1830s house (long story). We just went looking through the piles of dirt and rubble that they nonchalantly dug up and dumped, and poked around the walls of the trench, salvaging what we could. Heck, we should take pictures of that stuff, too, and put it up!
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