Re: Where would you hunt?

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

...so, part of what I'm saying is that money should go not only into 
_training_ preparators, but into _financing jobs_ for them. I don't know 
of a collection of fossils that has enough preparators to reduce the 
backlog of unprepared or minimally prepared fossils. There are plenty of 
papers that describe incompletely prepared fossils and treat the 
incomplete preparation as a fact of preservation instead of as something 
that could be fixed, and there are a few papers that say "we took that 
long-published specimen, continued preparing it, and gained the most 
amazing new insights". I'm _not_ talking about specimens where 
additional mechanical preparation couldn't help damaging the fossil, and 
I don't count CT (which can deal with exactly this latter kind of 
specimens).