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Re:Oldest Fossils of Homo Sapiens Found in Morocco by mturmon on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @02:58PM (#14508952)
Hmm, turns out there is a whole wiki page devoted to that and other methodologies for archaeological surveying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geophysical_survey_(archaeolog...
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Re:Oldest Fossils of Homo Sapiens Found in Morocco by galago on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @09:02PM (#14511124)
Non-invasive technologies are super-cool because we may not actually want to disturb stuff until we have the technology to do it properly. Some stuff we may never want to disturb for cultural or other reasons.
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Re:Oldest Fossils of Homo Sapiens Found in Morocco by hoppa_liza on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @11:31PM (#14511707)
Just stressing the "other reasons" part. In some countries people actually advocate for leaving stuff like this buried for fear of corrupt gov. officials handing off what they find to smugglers.
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