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Identifier: herculaneumpastp00wald (find matches)
Title: Herculaneum, past, present & future
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Waldstein, Charles, Sir, 1856-1927 Shoobridge, Leonard Knollys Haywood
Subjects: Art, Greco-Roman
Publisher: London : Macmillan and Co., limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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t. For I maintain that, while all the experi-mental and mechanical sciences have within the last few-generations been improved and have kept pace with all thediscoveries of modern times, archaeological excavation hasremained — to use an analogy of warfare — in the cross-bowstage as compared with the modern repeating rifle. This hascertainly been the case in the excavations which I myselfundertook ; and though some of my colleagues may have beenbetter equipped than I was, it is only a question of degree andnot of kind in which we differed. We may, surely, demandthat the same intelligence and material advantages be appliedto such important and delicate work as are brought to bearupon the construction of roads and railway-tunnelling. Butfurther, beyond the mere excavation itself, the objects whichare found ought to have the benefit of all that modern sciencecan apply to them. This is not the place to enter into details For the fuller treatment of this question see Part II. Chapter I.
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> c 9 s > < ZD = INTRODUCTION 17 with regard to the means which naturally suggest themselves,and to the manner and mode in which these reforms are to beeffected—reforms which will not make research mechanical,which are not primarily meant to accelerate the work, andin no sense stand in the way of the most thorough study ; onthe contrary, they furnish the only means for the systematicelaboration of what the spade of the excavator presents to thearchaeologist. Only so can our observation and study becometruly methodical and exact, and yield results adequate to therich material for knowledge that lies within our reach. Thevastness of the enterprise, the huge scale of work necessitatedby the conditions of its execution, necessarily lead to areconsideration and reorganisation of the methods of excava-tion. And thus this important and fundamental reform ofa department of archaeological science necessarily becameassociated in my mind with the plan of an excavation ofHerculaneum, w

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