#site preservation

i feel like we been overlooking the condition of some lesser known ancient sites rn, like their excavations arent even properly secured or documented lol maybe im just tired but cant help thinkin bout all the artifacts & structures just sitting there, slowly gettin damaged or lost

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