Brendan Foley Navigation Quotations

The thing that makes this archeology and not treasure-hunting or salvage is the scientific approach, which includes precision navigation and mapping.

The thing that makes artifacts important is their spatial relationships to each other. If you don't record those spatial relationships carefully, then you're not doing archeology. The minute you remove an artifact from a site and put it somewhere else, then you've lost information. The precision mapping done by the navigation system and the sub-profiler makes what we do archeological science.