Frederic Auth

So we always operate on incomplete data.

So there are things we will not be able to solve definitively.

We can only go so far and suggest that this might be something to think about.

But what you just said about the melting pot of cultures is something pretty much true in NIDA.

Because we are in a frontier zone.

We are not talking Roman culture.

We're not talking Gaulish culture or Germanic culture.

We are talking Gallo-Roman culture.

This is some own cultural background which is mixed up of all the people living there.

So we have to always keep in mind that we have a very own culture which is not comparable to, let's say, mainland Italy, for example.

So what happens?

You find this unusual feature as an archaeologist.

Is that, I mean, obviously you're trying to document what happened there.

Does this now become sort of a special project to figure that out?

I mean, how does it work in archaeology?

How do you decide what is something that deserves a lot of focus?

Like, for example, I'd see the Iceman, right?

This is obviously a very interesting find in the Alps, this guy who was preserved in ice.

That's obviously a lot to learn from that because it's so well preserved.

How do you decide this is what I'm going to spend years studying and this is not?