Ain't that cool?? We Bronze Age folks are definitely looking forward to more about it. LOTS of organic stuff, for one thing! Just another 10 or 15 years should bring more details....
Matthew
Matthew
Sounds really good! I can hardly wait to see some pictures...
| Matthew Amt wrote: |
| Ain't that cool?? We Bronze Age folks are definitely looking forward to more about it. LOTS of organic stuff, for one thing! Just another 10 or 15 years should bring more details....
Matthew |
Will it really take that long matt :( :( ?
J
Hah, you think archeologists *dig* slowly? You should see how slowly they WRITE. Granted, there is a (not completely universal) trend towards improving this, but it can still take WAY too long for official publication of archeological finds. Some things never do get published, or just stuck away in some library that only archeologists have access to.
Even large and important sites can be horribly delayed. The Corbridge hoard was found in the early 1960s, but didn't get published for a good 20 years. Dura Europas was dug up around 1930, and the volume on the military equipment was finally assembled and published just a couple years ago. The digs from Caesar's siegeworks at Alesia in the 19th century were never officially published. Museum storage rooms in places like Greece are stuffed with artifacts that have never been properly cataloged and published. Obviously things can get lost in the meantime, along with excavation notes, context drawings and photos, etc., meaning a crucial loss of information. And the tidbits and rumors that do slip through can lead to any number of strange and very inaccurate conclusions and persistent factoids.
The Internet is helping some! And I believe the Netherlands has a policy saying that any data not published within a certain timespan becomes public domain. THAT's cool! Use it or lose it, guys!
So, WILL we ever have access to the hard data from this extremely important find? I sure hope so!
Matthew
Even large and important sites can be horribly delayed. The Corbridge hoard was found in the early 1960s, but didn't get published for a good 20 years. Dura Europas was dug up around 1930, and the volume on the military equipment was finally assembled and published just a couple years ago. The digs from Caesar's siegeworks at Alesia in the 19th century were never officially published. Museum storage rooms in places like Greece are stuffed with artifacts that have never been properly cataloged and published. Obviously things can get lost in the meantime, along with excavation notes, context drawings and photos, etc., meaning a crucial loss of information. And the tidbits and rumors that do slip through can lead to any number of strange and very inaccurate conclusions and persistent factoids.
The Internet is helping some! And I believe the Netherlands has a policy saying that any data not published within a certain timespan becomes public domain. THAT's cool! Use it or lose it, guys!
So, WILL we ever have access to the hard data from this extremely important find? I sure hope so!
Matthew
| Matthew Amt wrote: |
| Hah, you think archeologists *dig* slowly? You should see how slowly they WRITE. |
They are very fast by their measure but they unfortunately use a " geological time scale ": When the Continents are a few more few apart you will finally have their report(s). :p :lol:
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