So I just got back from the Glen Canyon Lecture Series talk with Bill Lipe. He had lots of very pretty photos and some interesting insights into the Glen Canyon salvage project. Perhaps the most interesting to me (since I asked the question) was about what he would do different. He said that he would focus more on the Archaic and doing radiocarbon dating. The big insight was this though - research design is important. The answers are in the ground if you know what questions to ask.
What do I take away from that? Without knowing the questions, you can't extract data. But if the site is dug up and destroyed, any questions remain unanswerable. Just one more reason we need to protect these places.
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