Recently posted on the BAJR Facebook page but not (yet) on here but surely worthy of discussion:

'It is becoming apparent that some organisations are only advertising the jobs that they can get away with on BAJR - however there is a terms and conditions clause that clearly states that all positions must meet the criteria So to advertise on BAJR you can't hide on your own website the posts that don't fit/ I have just seen two "hidden in plain sight" adverts where diggers are on sub 17k rates and supervisors on sub 18k I won't name or link. ( and that goes for you all) I am frankly shocked. I can only ask you... don't work for less. There are lots of jobs out there and more coming. For everyone who works for less ( a job is a job argument) you are pushing down rates. you are stepping back into the past. Work for less and you will be forever poorly paid. IF nobody takes the sub minima jobs... then the rates HAVE to go up.'

It doesn't take much of a search to work out who one of the likely culprits is (and it's not the first time they have been accused of offering poor pay)

Why can't they be named? Stating the facts is not libellous: company X has advertised job Y on BAJR at pay rate Z and on their own at a a different rate and is offering other jobs well below BAJR minima.

Maybe BAJR was going to bring this subject up on the forum anyway.

a dinosaur used to pontificate in these hollow halls, or was he haunting? anyway ...... i for one have noticed several recent posts that in ancient times would have elicited a dinasaur response. is this a case of absence of evidence or is it the archaeologist holy grail, evidence of absence? or will he be revealed as was the artist formerly known as......? my breath is bated

How university archaeology departments are rated...

http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co...rchaeology

Quote:AN AUTHOR who believes the Battle of Hastings was fought in Crowhurst, has failed in his bid to have the site recognised as the official 1066 battlefield.

Nick Austin believes the bloody clash took place in the village, rather than the registered site at Battle.
Mr Austin applied to English Heritage, which is responsible for the battlefield, to examine his evidence, which he believes proves King Harold met his fate in Crowhurst.
But English Heritage has rejected Mr Austin’s bid for a re-assesment of the site.
“This is despite national television coverage by authorised archaeologists, which showed the nation in no uncertain terms there is no archaeology supporting the battle anywhere within the registered battlefield area.
“I was not consulted by any historians, or archaeologists on any evidence referred to in this document, where I can see some serious flaws in what it is claimed that I claim.

Noticed this type of bajr job ad

Quote:looking for two fit and reasonably experienced field archaeologists based on a self-employed basis to assist in the fieldwork stage of a strip/record project at an RB/post-med site. The fieldwork is expected to take around four weeks to complete starting on the 19th May 2014. Offers are invited from self employed archaeologists for day rates and travel expenses if travelling from outside the immediate area.

A bit of shameless self promotion but one I think people will enjoy.

Chris and I just launched an eBook on social media, blogging, and archaeology. It is Open Access i.e. FREE to READ.

Some very relevant chapters on using LinkedIn to get archaeology jobs, getting fired from a commercial company for blogging, and how to blog if you are a CRM archaeologists.

Other great chapters on ethics of social media and bodies, #freearchaeology, and much much more.

You can download it as a PDF or flip through it magazine style (I recommend that because it looks very cool)

Download
http://dougsarchaeology.wordpress.com/20...-blogarch/

magazine
http://www.digtech-llc.com/blogarch-ebook/

This morning we launched the crowd-sourcing platform that makes up part of our AHRC funded MicroPasts project (see http://crowdsourced.micropasts.org) and our community forum (http://community.micropasts.org)

For our first few applications, we have focused on the British Museum’s Bronze Age collections which are under the curation of Neil Wilkin and we’re asking for citizen scientists to help with transcription of a large corpus of cards and for assistance in producing 3D models.

Our system is based on open source software; Pybossa (http://pybossa.com) for enabling the crowd, Wordpress for the website and blogs and Discourse (http:// http://www.discourse.org/) for community building and anyone can download the data and images that we have produced for this project.

If you would like to participate in our project, please feel free to join in or send us any questions at info@micropasts.org

With regards,
The MicroPasts team (http://micropasts.org and @micropasts)

I have posted a lot over the last few years about how simple kite aerial photography is, with relatively little interest from archaeologists. This is now changing ;o)

Here is our new Facebook page, where the experts, and others, can post about their kite aerial remote sensing:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kite-Aeri...6896185869

Some of these techniques are nowhere near as complicated as they may first look.
3D modelling is now being employed in outreach with community groups and others eg http://heritagetogether.org/?lang=en

Soon, amateurs, children and pensioners will be routinely producing better images than most archaeologists...some have already started!

Also, as commented by many:

'In recent years there has been a rapid development of digital photogrammetric software solutions. Archaeologists started to take note of this through the first decade in the new millennium and have started to explore the possibilities of digital photogrammetry as a tool for recording spatial data. This thesis investigates the possibilities of modern digital photogrammetry as a methodology for topographical field documentation in archaeology. The methodology is compared to what has become the main tool for topographical documentation in Norwegian rescue archaeology, the total station. Using self-developed methods for evaluating the data I have been able to determine the quality of each methodology in terms of resolution and time spent recording. This evaluation shows that digital photogrammetry is by far the better choice for recording topographical data at an archaeological excavation. I have also shown some possible applications for this kind of data in both visualizing and analyzing the data.' [SIZE=2]http://munin.uit.no/handle/10037/4306[/SIZE]

I have returned recently from two contiguous meetings in Ireland 'Archaeology Above and Below'.

The first meeting, at Balla School, was attended by the Irish Prime Minister:
http://www.armadale.org.uk/snaps.htm#ranger

For community work, kites are on the up ;o)

Looking over Balla: School top left, walled garden right. (student photo)

Will the multidisciplinary techniques of archaeological remote sensing (soil resistance, gradiometry, magnetic susceptibility, metal detection, tomography, GPR, KAP etc) ever find their way into the increasingly rigid curriculum of schools in the UK........or even into some university archaeology departments?
Maybe Balla School could help with some outreach work with universities ;oO

Primary schools in Scotland are increasingly taking up kite aerial photography, with an Archaeology/KAP, CPD course planned for teachers in West Lothian by Archaeology Scotland, at the Oatridge Campus of SRUC.

Glasgow School of Art, a leader in virtual 3D modelling, now has a Kite Society. A member of the Society, an archaeologist, was present at Balla.
Three recipients of our National Scheme are postgraduate students at the GSA.

A visit to Roscommon Castle proved useful too!
http://www.armadale.org.uk/snaps.htm#was