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<p>[QUOTE="Ardatirion, post: 428109, member: 9204"]Spock is partly right. And you've hit upon a major debate in archaeology. Its often better for the artifacts themselves to leave them in situ: the dirt protected them for centuries and will continue to. But if its in the ground, what good is it to us?</p><p><br /></p><p>The short of it is - we dig them up and preserve them because we want them. If we didn't care, they'd still be in the ground.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ardatirion, post: 428109, member: 9204"]Spock is partly right. And you've hit upon a major debate in archaeology. Its often better for the artifacts themselves to leave them in situ: the dirt protected them for centuries and will continue to. But if its in the ground, what good is it to us? The short of it is - we dig them up and preserve them because we want them. If we didn't care, they'd still be in the ground.[/QUOTE]
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