05-02-2006, 10:08 PM
Quote:I'm in no way being a Devil's Advocate here, because I also am disgusted by antiquities being destroyed for modern development....But...In spite of this, where are we going to house people? Where are they going to park thier cars? It's getting awfully crowded, ya know. :evil:
(It's the same problem we have with Wildlife and Natural Spaces...Who came first, the Humans or the Animals...And how much room do the Animals need/get compared to humans and thier McMansions?...And then the Humans whine and complain about the [Deer] eating up thier $50,000 dollar landscaping because the Deer don't have anywhere to go, and it's Open Buffet Nite at the McMansion to the Deer! Oh but wait, they said they wanted to be "closer to nature"...Can't get closer than that!)
Perhaps in one way, it could be a benefit in the end...As long as that site is not totally destroyed and leveled for the precious parking lot...If it's built "on top" of the site, the lot could possibly preserve and hide the hidden artifacts for many years...If we let archaeologists in now, who's to say the insipidly arrogant and destructive Looters won't come and steal all of the artifacts, to be scattered around the world and eventually, illegally, end up in an institution or Museum?
It will be a nice day when an archaeological site is actually protected and guarded seriously, and is completely checked and recorded to the smallest details, So when some jerk politician wants his parking space for him and his buddies, then he'll have mountains of paperwork to sift through instead.
It'd be even more interesting that when a site is discovered, then Military Reenactors of that particular period are paid and bought in to guard that site, and given use of lethal force. Wouldn't that be cool? I might be willing to do that....So, a Roman site would benefit from us Legionaries with sword and pilum (and scorpio and ballista, et cetera); Medieveal/Renaissance get to have Halberdiers, Pikemen, Mounted Knights, Archers, Handgunners and Treubechet...English Civil to American Civil Wars have [Flintlocks], bayonets and artillery....WW1 and WW2 with machine guns, Artillery, and Spotlights, Oh, and at that point we could have 24 hr aerial patrols with surviving fighter aircraft, with working guns no less!
I'd like to see some schmuck Looter try to steal something then!
...And [we] could also stick around to cause the bulldozers some trouble.
Muahahahahahha
I didn't think about it until now, but how many people dig little tunnels to break into banks, or to smuggle things across boarders. Now that the world is aware of this, how much could somebody make by digging over, plundering and selling the artifact found there. People have done a lot harder for a lot less.
Hmm, I could use some authentic Roman artifacts myself.
On second thought, disregard what I just said.
Steve
