PALEONEWS: Putting 'Dead Digs' to Rest

[Betty Cunningham <bettyc@flyinggoat.com>]

article on retracing archeological digs, sounds a LOT like certain work
going on in Canada.....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-01/10/122l-011000-idx.html
WASHINGTON POST: Putting 'Dead Digs' to Rest

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 The grants last up to three years and can cover projects from Neolithic
times to the Middle Ages. Most important, however, the field work must
have been completed for at least five years, and grantees must have a
publisher in hand before they apply. The program is designed, literally,
to close the book on dead digs.
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This is because "dead digs" have zero cachet. The news conferences were
held years ago, just before the magazine articles appeared. People
raised families, taught students, moved on to something else, or died.
In many cases, the history of a dead dig can be as convoluted as the
history of the site itself.


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