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|4.26.05 @ 5:25AM|#
Archaeologists are assholes. (Of course, this is a huge generalization.) Archaeology was once my major, but I couldn't stand being part of a group that loved dead people more than the living (and the fuzzy sciences just seemed, well, too fuzzy). Also, my profs tended to fly off the handle at the smallest things. Maybe they can't deal with the living, so they choose to deal with the dead.
|4.26.05 @ 11:10AM|#
It's surprising to some how well certain antiquities dealers know archeology and also that the dealers tend to be such good arbiters of the value of artifacts. And also how often the values tend to fluctuate with archaeologists' estimated archeological significance of the pieces, and sometimes even anticipate those estimations.
None of this should be surprising though, since the antiquities dealers work in a *market* for these objects