OT: Archaeological restorations (was RE: Restoring classic kits w e built way-back-when)

From: Feldman, Robert <Robert_Feldman_at_jdedwards.com>
Date: Fri Oct 5 08:05:54 2001

On topic: Leave your old hardware the way it is, for historical reference.

Off topic: Coins are so boring ;) (though they last and are dated; I admit I
have used them myself, though). When I backfilled my excavations of a 3000
BC temple mound on the Peruvian coast, I put a basket-full of old shoes in
first (the site was being used as the modern town's garbage dump). In
another case, I dumped a load of washed and sorted shells in a pit at a
village site, and put in a dated newspaper page. A few years later, another
group re-excavated at the village, found the shells, but thought the
newspaper was intrusive (there is a lot of site looting in Peru) until they
happened to mention to me the "cache" of shells they found, whereupon I told
them what had happened.
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Ethan Dicks [mailto:erd_6502_at_yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 10:17 PM
To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
Subject: Restoring classic kits we built way-back-when


<snip> Specifically, I have several things <snip> that
I made when I was a teenager. <snip> I'm debating re-soldering these items

<snip>
I took history and archaeology in school; <snip> When my
advisor restored the bed of a large monochrome mosaic near Isthmia, he
threw several modern coins into the concrete bed so that future
excavators would know that it wasn't ancient concrete.

<snip>

-ethan
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