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printed text page with title: ' Albuquerque, New Mexico / November 22, 1998 // It has been two years since / first coming to New Mexico. It is clear / that this enchaning place is vital / to revealing and unlocking the / questions to our search as we / approach the end of our journey. / Some kind of psychological turning / point occured after the excavation / at Nagi Gompa. The team is both / physically and mentally tired after / the past ten years of working / together and not having been back / to our homeland. The loneliness / has balanced out the initial / excitement of the project. But this / psychological twist involved half / of the team's reluctance to remove / the automobiles, as we have crated / and shipped back the others. Have / we been archaeologists or grave robbers? / The dismantling of the Anasazi walls at / Chetro Ketl was unsettling. Some of us / want to leave the artifacts and simply learn / from them and photograph them. / Possession seems to be unimportant. We / left the BMW at excavation twenty-seven. / Another dilemma has been the fact that our / mere presence and descecration of the / sacred sites seems wrong even in the / name of science. We all seem to have / become humanists rather than scientists. / With the discover of the future car at our / last dig at Clovis, we were forced to place / a value decision on how the future might / be altered if we released our find. We / choose to rebury the car and confront the / questions at the last exxcavation at Uluru / Rock. '
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