http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cerickso/articles/Exped.pdf

does have more precise maps of some earthworks / fishweirs.

incidentally an unbelievably surreal part of the world:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/anselmhook/413786903/

- a

On 3/7/07, Mike Liebhold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Anselm Hook wrote:

> On 3/7/07, Bill Kearney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> > Why don't archeologists ever actually supply longitude and latitude?
>>
>> That's not hard to explain.  They're not interested in J.Random Idiot
>> trampling the site and stripping it of archeological value.
>

100% true.  Obfuscation of locations of significant  sites is a common
and highly  respected practise in archeology. Pot Hunters have destroyed
more sites than you might imagine  The State of California, for
example,  has an  archeological map repository at Cal  State Sonoma in
Cotati,  Filled with maps that you and I might find fascinating, but are
ornly available  o bonafide researchers.

I have personally created and recorded a 'secret'  map of an
archeological site in Northern California , and have worked with native
Hawaiians to protect sites on Maui  of early Polynesian  temples (
Heiaus)  from hordes of marauding tourists.

- Mike









>> Or just hiding
>> it from their fellow researchers so they can publish first.
>
>
> I thought that but in this case the earthworks are so large.  I was
> hoping to see it from space basically.
>
> Perhaps it is just a kneejerk policy at this point.  Some of the best
> fossil beds on the burgess shales in Alberta are not precisely
> published, nor say Rats Nest Cave; or the hot spring cavern near
> Banff, although everybody whose lived there knows where they are.
>
> Well, maybe I am wrong on the shales case - I see more links to them:
>
>  http://www.mala.bc.ca/~earles/burgess/
>
> - a
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