Message #263519

[Openheimer]

The Arch Fantasies podcast recently had a very good episode on the importance of establishing context on artefacts. Worth a listen, one of the interesting things mentioned was how much of a problem Native artefact collectors are. Very few label where they find their stuff, and in the one hand you have sites that are unknown due to removal of these artefacts, and on the other hand you have collections with artifacts that have stuff that shouldn't be found in that area. It may have been found there, or they could have traded or bought it for their collection.