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Archaeological news is always frustrating due to the lack of pictures. I would love to look through dozens of high res photos of this find, but I doubt I'll eve
by staunch 11y ago
Archaeological news is always frustrating due to the lack of pictures. I would love to look through dozens of high res photos of this find, but I doubt I'll ever get the chance.
- robinsloan 11y agoWhy "ever"? It seems to me like more & more artifacts like this are getting photographed -- and/or even scanned in 3D! -- and posted online. But maybe you're alluding to something in the culture of archaeology I don't know about...? Just curious.
- VLM 11y agoGirlWithTrowel alludes to working under a press embargo. One woman's blog is not proof of much, however, press embargos are BAU for NASA missions, PIs get a year to publish before the results are public, however media coverage disappears a couple hours after mission events. So at least in mass "push" media, the data is never distributed beyond occasional PR team low res footage. It would not be surprising if press/publicity stuff works the same for archeology missions as NASA missions, after all they're all academia employed PHDs trying to get published in journals, so convergent evolution and all that. All the data is eventually released "somewhere" usually on a public website, but it takes awhile.
- toyg 11y agoThe problem is that priority must be conservation, so items are likely stored away very quickly and examined later with all due care. Pics will eventually emerge through studies and papers. But yeah, I agree with the sentiment. Maybe archeologists should film their proceedings, it would make things easier later on.