Archaeologist son was telling me all about these types in Europe. Dunno how much of the posters "Facts" are true, but this stuff is big business in Russia. It receives their mark of legitimacy by stating they are trying to repatriate remains and give closure to families by recovering dog tags, ID's etc. However the dark side to this is all the recovered relics go straight to places like eBay.
They are not real archaeologist, but just guys out relic hunting. The German govt does employ real archaeologist but these aren't the guys!!! This is not the way you go thru such an area. If you want to see real archaeologist excavating, look up the WWI German remains they found in the collapsed dugout in eastern France several years ago. Awesome find. I think someone posted a link here. Believe the site was in either the Vosges area or Alsace.
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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