Immobilization of contaminants in situ is an attractive option at many sites because the vast quantities of affected media, often with low pollutant concentrations, make excavation or extraction of the contamination infeasible.
Nevertheless, the bad publicity made further excavation impossible last summer.
Since then, greater protection of lands has been put in place so that changes in use, including destruction, cannot be made without excavation first.
The American School of Oriental Research, which made the excavation together with the Jordanian authorities, sold it with 80 pieces of architecture and sculpture from the site in 1939 to the Cincinnati Art Museum for $5,000.
Atkinson made "minimal" excavation records, and no report of it was published until Whittle and Wysocki's detailed report in 1998.
These traces do not represent tool marks made during excavation, because tools could not penetrate deeply into the fossil without shattering the brittle bone.
Sunday, 1 to 3 p.m., "Colonial Waterfront Development: Excavations for the New South Ferry Subway Terminal," a discussion with archaeologists involved with the Lower Manhattan construction project and the finds they made during excavations.
He has also made extensive excavations at another city, Huanuco Pampa, unearthing, as it were, evidence that beer occupied a fraternity-size role in Incan civilization.
The first dating of Golondrina points was made after excavations of area C in the The Devil's Mouth site which revealed Paleo-Indian projectile points that were radiocarbon assayed to 8700 BP.
"It's as much about the shattered dreams of a company like Atari," said Jonathan Chinn of Lightbox Entertainment, the production company making the excavation documentary, at the SXSW festival this year.
