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  1. Aug 2023
    1. If I am understanding this right - I think the potential dilemma that arises from professional versus local archaeology is interesting. Local archeology efforts could provide insight into the past that would've gone unresearched otherwise, but with lower budgets and potentially greater mistakes (due to it not being 'professional quality' (?)) could harm the items in the dig site. Professional archaeology affords research in key places, motivated by economics, politics, or culture, and allows for the use of advanced techniques such as carbon dating. Unfortunately, this may remove the discovery that many of the locals of the area would've likely enjoyed performing (since it is their roots). How are we to weigh preservation, quality, and ethics together to form the idea of 'just' archeology?

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