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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-04-10 02:41 PM Original message |
Some parts of Pompeii haven't been excavated yet. Anyone know |
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Ozymanithrax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-04-10 02:43 PM Response to Original message |
1. When I visited years ago, I was told that some areas are held back... |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-04-10 02:46 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Yes, to dig it all out now would be to act like . . . |
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Motown_Johnny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-04-10 05:06 PM Response to Reply #6 |
20. ok, that was a good one |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-04-10 02:53 PM Response to Reply #1 |
9. My guess is that it's money |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-04-10 04:20 PM Response to Reply #1 |
17. Yep. And archeologist know that their science, or art, is constantly developing. |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-04-10 02:43 PM Response to Original message |
2. Money, time, accessibility, politics, war, |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-04-10 02:44 PM Response to Original message |
3. Pompeii is huge. It is impossible for a person to see all that has been excavated in 8 hours. And it |
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Davis_X_Machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-04-10 03:29 PM Response to Reply #3 |
11. Preservation of what's already been excavated... |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-04-10 02:44 PM Response to Original message |
4. i thought they leave portions unexcavated because future techologies may yield better conclusions |
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Sal Minella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-04-10 03:42 PM Response to Reply #4 |
12. This sounds logical to me. I know when the springs at Bath in England |
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MattBaggins (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-04-10 04:01 PM Response to Reply #4 |
14. This is a big reason. Leave sections untouched for future scientists |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-04-10 02:45 PM Response to Original message |
5. Methods improve over time. Current digs might screw up future findings. |
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Behind the Aegis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-04-10 02:48 PM Response to Original message |
7. I have heard two reasons. |
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Tyrone Slothrop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-04-10 02:52 PM Response to Original message |
8. It's an entire city |
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southernyankeebelle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-04-10 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
10. I have been there years ago. I have family living in Naples. Love Italy. |
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Swede (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-04-10 03:44 PM Response to Original message |
13. Why must you post about digging up old dirt? |
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kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-04-10 04:06 PM Response to Original message |
15. The Mole Men have forbidden it! |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-04-10 04:09 PM Response to Original message |
16. I'm LOLing at myself for mis-reading the verb in the OP as "evacuated" |
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jobendorfer (429 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-04-10 04:37 PM Response to Original message |
18. two reasons |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-04-10 05:05 PM Response to Original message |
19. I see that nobody has mentioned the other major issue... |
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