#excavation

so i was on this dig last week and we found some pretty cool artifacts but the way they were handling the site was kinda annoying. like they werent even using proper techniques to preserve the context of the finds. i mean i get it, time and budget constraints and all that but come on. youre basically destroying the very thing youre trying to learn from. and the worst part is theyre gonna publish their findings and nobody is gonna question the methodology. its just gonna be taken as fact. i dont know maybe im just being too sensitive but it seems like nobody cares about the actual archaeology anymore

I'm still getting annoyed thinking about my last archaeology dig. We excavated this site that was supposed to be a significant find, but the whole process was poorly organised. The equipment was subpar and we couldn't even get a decent reading on the terrain. It's amazing how some teams still can't get it together. I swear, it's like they've never done this before. Doesn't anyone learn from past mistakes anymore?