Pilfered artifacts are a problem for archeologists , but the problem can go much deeper than just the deprivation of the point .
After reading this post on theproblems of the fossil black grocery , commenter and archeologisttrudibell_chimed in to tell us that the annoyance was share across archeologic digs as well — and not just because of the loss of the artefact . It ’s also losing the chance to look at those artifact in the right context :
robbery is a serious problem for us too , obviously . Professional “ flock hunters ” or the like ruin stratigraphic context making it out of the question to construct the past tense . only put , underneath our foot the earth provides us with a timeline of event , those that are bury deep occurred in the first place while those shallower occurred much more recently . When a tidy sum of hobbyist grab their shovels , very rarely do they record all of the nuances in the stain and other artifacts that are uncovered during your received looting . In this way , there ’s nothing skill can actually say about an physical object other than “ cracking . ”
This is one of the main reasonableness why supporting any kind of private - lucre motivated digging process is so serious , as you put it , fossils are a precious , limited imagination and without right excavation once they are off from the ground there is no way to seek to retrace the surrounding environment , fork over the object nothing more than a potentially expensive curiosity and we learn nothing .
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