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Archaeology: Hidden treasure

Nature volume 464, pages 826–827 (2010)Cite this article

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The explosion in commercial archaeology has brought a flood of information. The problem now is figuring out how to find and use this unpublished literature, reports Matt Ford.

Archaeologists are used to gathering data by scratching in the dirt. But when Richard Bradley set out to write a new prehistory of Britain in 2004, he unearthed his most important finds while wearing sandals and a sweater rather than work boots and a hard hat.

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  1. Hinton, P. & Jennings, D. in Quality Management in Archaeology (eds Willems, W. J. H. & van den Dries, M. H.) 100-112 (Oxbow, 2007).

  2. Lock, G. Brit. Archaeol. 101, 36-37 (July/August 2008).

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Matt Ford is a freelance writer in Bath, UK.

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