My role in having an "open" policy, in New England Ceremonial Stone Landscape

From the beginning of having discussions about secrecy for sites versus publicity, I argued that publicity and education was the best way to protect the sites. Then I forced the issue by publishing the majority of the sites I found. Since I found so many, this because a sort of "fait accompli".

One time at a NEARA conference a woman said to me: "We'll just have to agree to disagree". I thought to myself: "No I do not agree to disagree. I will just go on publishing sites and you can keep your one or two 'special' places secret."

Older than Pompeii

It occurs to me that the conditions that perfectly preserved Pompeii must have "frozen" some other places in time - but older. There might be a search conducted for a village of ~50K years ago, somewhere out in the West or wherever in the US there is an appropriate aged bed of volcanic material. Boy would that tell us something!