The Public and The Dirt

It has been my experience that the amateur historical buffs like old buildings, old architecture and basically anything above ground. I have no gripe against the amateur historian types. It is because of them I found a love of archaeology. There seems to simply be less passion about anything under the ground. I just don't understand that. How did we get to the point of the pretty buildings if not on the back of the first settlements? Can you truly appreciate something unconnected? The object or action or story is part of an even longer history. It should be connected linearly in that history.

Its like this. I can appreciate the design of a gear but it is way cooler when it is part of an actual watch and i can see how it all works together

Why does the archaeologist have to fight the developer? Have we not gotten past this? It is still going on in my hometown. What is worse is when the archaeologist gives up the integrity of the gatekeeper to become the developers' prostitute. "Tricks are what whores do for money."

When integrity can be sold then it is no longer integrity.

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Show 42

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