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degotoga t1_iubzh5a wrote

Reply to comment by brickhamilton in Bronze Age gold belt with 'cosmological' designs unearthed in Czech beet field by quiver03

It’s to stop treasure hunting for profit. So while that might work once you probably wouldn’t get away with it a second time

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Potatobender44 t1_iueeahf wrote

Why would you want to stop people from potentially unearthing cool historical artifacts? I would think you would want to incentivize it

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degotoga t1_iuesw25 wrote

The idea is to incentivize trained scientists through grants while discouraging amateurs and treasure hunters. In most cases the latter can do more damage than good. See Egypt as a case study

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