Selling them off just spreads them around and removes context. If there are massed in your front yard, back yard, and sold off randomly as one needs space, that is certainly not the same as housed in a museum storehouse.
People are working on historical research and archaeology all over the world, but mostly in silos. If there were better ways of coordination and collaboration, that would be invaluable. The internet has turned into a great resource, and many new scientific techniques are now available. There are databases for anchors and cannon out there. One has to wonder how many artefacts are spread around Florida, and the world from that area of shipwrecks. How is the context and coordination ever supposed to happen? There may be a piece missing that would complete the artefact or solve a hypothesis and further understanding or research. Keeping a collection together is the best way to see the whole picture.
If there is currently no funding, that does not mean there never will be.
EDIT: I am reminded of this story, even though recent, is the very same issue, context. A family walking along the beach found "shiny objects", and took them home...
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/31074512/more-suspected-mh370-debris-found-in-mozambique/
People are working on historical research and archaeology all over the world, but mostly in silos. If there were better ways of coordination and collaboration, that would be invaluable. The internet has turned into a great resource, and many new scientific techniques are now available. There are databases for anchors and cannon out there. One has to wonder how many artefacts are spread around Florida, and the world from that area of shipwrecks. How is the context and coordination ever supposed to happen? There may be a piece missing that would complete the artefact or solve a hypothesis and further understanding or research. Keeping a collection together is the best way to see the whole picture.
If there is currently no funding, that does not mean there never will be.
EDIT: I am reminded of this story, even though recent, is the very same issue, context. A family walking along the beach found "shiny objects", and took them home...
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/31074512/more-suspected-mh370-debris-found-in-mozambique/
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