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Time Team - Beardstroker - 13th May 2005
Quote:quote:Originally posted by Petethedig
Do you not think that TT has actually made a rod for archaeologies back? By this I mean that it most definitely has inspired many a young person to enter this profession! By doing so is it not the case that archaeology is now over-manned? To many bods and not enough jobs!
To me TT is a bucket full of crap and for all the reasons I've read so far.Interesting to see what people think, who have worked with them! Interesting topic!
Evil to him who thinks evil.
I've not yet met a professional archaeologist who has gone into archaeology because of the influence of Time Team.At least no one who would admit to it anyway
It's done some good in raising the professions profile and has given the non archaeological public a limited insight into how some of the process's of archaeology work beyond digging.
Personally though, I think it's gone about as far as it can go with that now and is getting tired and repetitive. It still reinforces rather tired old stereotypes, of amiable old buffers in silly clothes pottering about at weekends and holidays and retiring to the pub when the weather gets a bit damp. Not really a true picture of professional archaeology at all.
Time Team - deepdigger - 14th May 2005
whoops! sorry all, please excuse me.i'll be more careful in future.
deep
Time Team - troll - 14th May 2005
Thanks Deep-spankings are optional ya know...wet lettuce leaves and clingfilm bikinis at the ready...
I seem to remember that Tony Robinson headed up one particular episode that looked at the plight of field archaeologists in a half-hearted way, would be nice if just one episode informed the viewing public of what we actually do and more importantly, what we are capable of doing if given adequate economic and time-budgets-wochya fink?
Time Team - Beki - 14th May 2005
you make spanking sound so fun!
ahem
back to the point...my dad really likes time team...and no matter how many times i tell him not to, he tapes it for me every week and ALWAYS tells me that one day that'll be me......
Time Team - deepdigger - 14th May 2005
You mean its not?
aw s**t
deep
Time Team - troll - 14th May 2005
Terrible behaviour....spanking imminent.
Think you`ve illustrated a good point there though, for all it`s faults (in our eyes) you would have to go a long way to shake the TT fans from their conviction that it`s a great program. I feel that rather than proposing an alternative, perhaps if we (as a profession) were to open a dialogue with the program makers or the "stars" themselves, we may have an opportunity to move TT in a more productive direction and help it to evolve.As a few of you goodly people have said-it`s tired and has run it`s course. We have to admit that it is now almost culturally embedded so-rather than extraction of a decaying tooth-can we remould it in situ?[?]
Time Team - Beki - 14th May 2005
Yeah, that would be a good plan!
Time Team - troll - 14th May 2005
So, how would you all like to see TT evolve? Quite apart from sprouting limbs and clawing up the bank and out of the primordial sludge that is...
Where should the TT makers be taking the program and what could be done to portray not only a more realistic world but, a more interesting and exciting one that illustrates the potential of PROPER archaeology?
Time Team - Beki - 14th May 2005
Well..i dunno...maybe instead of digging on only sites that are either spectacular or guaranteed to throw up loads of goody's they could probably just follow around a REAl unit, to give viewers a taste of real archaeology...
let everyone know it isn't all glamour and silly dressing up (altho i like dressing up..but hey...when do we ever do that on site!)
Time Team - the invisible man - 14th May 2005
Surely it's had it's day now, it's time to pack it in.
Today, Bradford. Tomorrow, well, Bradford probably.