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Archaeology or archeology[a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes.

Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past lifeways to documenting and explaining changes in human societies through time.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In the same article where they ask the discoverer to come forward and identify themselves, they write about how this person has exposed themselves to criminal liability and huge fines for trying to help.

No way they’re coming forward now.

Sounds like the law is preventing archaeologists from learning the provenance the axe heads.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

However, appealing to the sender to get back in touch, staff said information about the discovery of the axe-heads would be "treated with the utmost confidentiality and used solely to verify the find location and its circumstances".

Or in other words “we won’t snitch on you, we just want the data”