Seabed Explorations broke no laws during the salvage operation, he says, and had an archaeologist on hand to record details of the ship during the second season.
Yet even as researchers comb Greenland for clues to the Norse disappearance, only a handful of homegrown archaeologists are on hand to help; most research is done by outsiders from Denmark or other Western countries.
An archaeologist is on hand to examine what the machine turns up, and direct any further scraping.
The dig is ongoing, and there will be days when guests return to their hostel after a day tramping around museums only to find archaeologists on their hands and knees rustling up the stuff that will fill those very same museum shelves.
Archaeologists, on the other hand, have not been asked to recuse themselves from deliberations or votes involving countries where they have taken part in excavations.
On the one hand it's true when archaeologists claim that they have no control over the media narrative, and that journalists are prone to sensationalise these kinds of things… but on the other hand, it kind of misses the point, and is also a little disingenuous.
Anyone about to undergo cryonic preservation should consider setting the thawing-out date about 5,000 years hence, because it would be great fun to be on hand when archaeologists of that day try to make sense of the current fuss over King Scorpion, who may or may not have ruled some or all of Egypt long, long ago.
For nearly 10 months, more than 1,000 volunteers ranging from school students to housewives, retirees, working professionals on their off-days assisted the archaeologists on site and discovering first hand on the 125-year-old military fort.
"In California, you need a paleontologist and an archaeologist on-site" during such projects, Rivin says.
Archaeologists from the medical examiner's office were also on hand.
