Re: Latest on Newport Tower dig

On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 09:39:55 +0100, "Peter Alaca" <p.alaca@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Eric Stevens <eric.stevens@xxxxxxxxx > wrote:
"Tom McDonald" wrote:
Eric Stevens wrote:

I think you are losing track of what I originally said.

I think you are losing track of what I want to talk about--the nature
of archaeology, and how non-archaeologists sometimes expect things
from it that it cannot, at present, deliver.

A conversation can have more than one track, don't you agree?

Quite right. But I don't want to be left where you have the unrebutted
last word on the subject **I** want to discuss. :-)

Because you regard the archaeological view as negativity.
What discussion is that?

Are you really saying that when a team is already on the ground the
archaeological view is that they should not consider investigating
where there is evidence of something to find?

If you are saying that, then what do you say is the method they should
follow to determine sites suitable for investigation?



Eric Stevens
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