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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
a pronouncement exactly on what the what the value is but [00:24:07] it's my impression that a great deal of the intense specialization in ceramic studies is probably, uh somewhat of a misdirection.

{SPEAKER name="Shirley Gorenstein "}
Uh huh. Well its true that the architectural studies have been [00:24:28] almost nonexistent in Mesoamerica.


{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
Well this is part two of the, of the, of the growing interest of course in the so called scientific archaeology, and as I mentioned before the scientific archaeologist can work with these kinds of things, much better than he can work with uh, with buildings or

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mural paintings or sculptures and so on.

{SPEAKER name="Shirley Gorenstein "}
uh huh.

{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
and uh,

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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
my feeling is that the, that this is a, that some of this of course is perfectly good but archaeology is a very very complex subject and that there is all kinds of approaches should be used

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I appreciate the uh, the importance of a use of a magnotometer for instance, uh in discovering objects, or being on the computer and analyzing objects, but I think there is a tendency for those who get interested in these technical things to go way way beyond or go too far in their use, but uh, archaeology

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in my opinion can never be an exact science, uh, but uh, its uh, it requires, its uh, more one of the