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No, you usually just steamroll the dirt.

• vyrotek 13y ago
  In the US, yes. But I know Italy and other places in Europe have laws that require an excavation to be done to look for historical stuff. It can end up cancelling entire projects if they discover something important which can't be extracted.
  • robbiep 13y ago
    Well Europe has thousands of years of productive civilisation (not to denigrate the achievements of mesoamerican civilisations) - but density and continuous habitation of cities is different in Europe. It seems madness to suggest we should mount an archological expidition to Mars before a colonisation mission but I hope efforts are made to explore it scientifically. M
  • DougWebb 13y ago
    We have those laws in the US too, and I'm sure Europe has its fair share of developers trying to cover up archeological finds to avoid derailing a development project.
• mathattack 13y ago
  Of course the Avatar example. :-)