{"id":3456,"date":"2009-12-30T14:54:10","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T14:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=3456"},"modified":"2009-12-30T14:54:10","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T14:54:10","slug":"garden-archaeology-has-much-to-teach-conventional-archaeological-exploitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/garden-archaeology-has-much-to-teach-conventional-archaeological-exploitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden archaeology has much to teach conventional archaeological exploitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3457\" style=\"width: 785px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/3062512005_72583c4cef_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3457\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3457\" title=\"Bronze Age Reconstruction\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/3062512005_72583c4cef_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"775\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/3062512005_72583c4cef_b.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/3062512005_72583c4cef_b-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/3062512005_72583c4cef_b-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/3062512005_72583c4cef_b-624x390.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3457\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Bronze Age Reconstruction which does much good and no harm<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/garden\/pompeii_gardens\">Pompeii <\/a>would be in much better condition today if had never been excavated &#8211; and the same is true of a great many archaeological sites. Too many archaeologists are paid to publish papers or to support the tourist industry. They talk about conservation, endlessly, but they do far more good than harm. Since garden archaeologists have so few ancient gardens to damage, they should set an example to the archaeological profession by making reconstructions of ancient gardens. Images, text and digital reconstructions are all useful but nothing is as good as a 1:1 reconstruction near, but never on, the archaeological remains.\u00a0 The lake dwellings in the above photographs are reconstructions of dwellings from the Bronze and Stone Ages. (at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pfahlbauten.com\/\">Pfahlbau Museum Unteruhldingen<\/a>, Germany).\u00a0 Image courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/leidzhang\/\">Derek <\/a><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pompeii would be in much better condition today if had never been excavated &#8211; and the same is true of a great many archaeological sites. Too many archaeologists are paid to publish papers or to support the tourist industry. They talk about conservation, endlessly, but they do far more good than harm. Since garden archaeologists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}