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distinctive regional traditions - Dinosaur - 26th July 2012
P Prentice Wrote:i bet it is better than anything you have ever written unit
[through teeth gritted in envy] yes actually its ok, although personally I'd have gone for some different sites - interesting conclusions, anyone into Iron Age stuff should take a look. I'll leave it to those who know about such things to pull his maths to pieces (if they can)....
Apologies Unit, try www.lra.le.ac.uk, find their thesis bit and search for Hamilton W D 2010 'The use of radiocarbon and bayesian modelling to (re)write Later Iron Age settlement histories in east-central Britain'
distinctive regional traditions - P Prentice - 26th July 2012
i read it and it looks pretty much like the most important thing dealing with later prehistory to come out of northern england (via leicester) for many a moon
distinctive regional traditions - Unitof1 - 26th July 2012
yet another use of baysians, didnt the other english heritage one also find that some event happened over a surprisingly short lived period. Looking forward to the next short lived baysian event. how about the migration period statred on a monday and was over by the weekend. Geerus ?50,000 gov
distinctive regional traditions - Dinosaur - 26th July 2012
P Prentice Wrote:i read it and it looks pretty much like the most important thing dealing with later prehistory to come out of northern england (via leicester) for many a moon
Not a Brown drinker then? That always helps me with prehistory :0
Think Hamilton should have teamed up with Sherlock, S J 2012 Late Prehistoric Settlement in the Tees Valley and North-East England, since they were on the same course at the same time, and done the same group of sites, but then joined up thinking of that order rarely happens in British archaeology
Dead handy for anyone currently writing up IA stuff in the NorthEast at the moment though
distinctive regional traditions - Unitof1 - 27th July 2012
you writing up your own stuff or somebody elses?
distinctive regional traditions - Dinosaur - 27th July 2012
Mixture. Seem to have become a dumping ground for old unfinished stuff (including a horrific old archive of stuff done by at least 9 different outfits - eek!), but still let out occasionally to commit my own excavational atrocities just so as to prevent the backlog ever getting any smaller }
distinctive regional traditions - P Prentice - 27th July 2012
Unitof1 Wrote:Whats wrong with rubbish and I have never found anything to write about which makes my cliants very happy
i dont doubt that you have no happy clients unit
distinctive regional traditions - Unitof1 - 27th July 2012
cant imagine any client is happy to pay even a penny for the rubbish that they are forced to pay for, so makes happiness a matter of payless. Presumably you use the same tricks, a bit of sucking air through teeth, mention the contingancy, say that you will see what you can do, give them a hug and tell them that it will all be worth it and give them an option to pay in instalments at a favourable rate of interest.
distinctive regional traditions - P Prentice - 27th July 2012
sometimes - but sometimes they get some high profile publicity that would have cost them an arm and a leg anyway. sometimes they are even sufficiently interested that it wasnt even a planning condition. sometimes they come to us for edification
distinctive regional traditions - Unitof1 - 27th July 2012
this is one end of the cow and this is what comes out of the other end, oh master aPrentise there f off. there is no way that any client thinks that archaeology is their great publisity stunt. the fact that you think that they do makes you a bloody public servent sorry excuse enjoy your pension I hope ypou coke