16th April 2012, 12:38 PM
Breaking New Ground: how archaeology works
By Kenneth Aitchison
Who works as a professional archaeologist, what do they do and who do they work for?
This is the first comprehensive review of applied archaeology as a profession in the UK in the twenty-first century, using case studies of organisations and particular archaeological projects to present a contemporary history of professional archaeology that looks at who employs archaeologists, who their clients are and why those clients want archaeological work done.
It examines where the demand for professional archaeological work comes from and how this demand is met, firstly looking at how this has changed from the earliest days of archaeological work, through the era of rescue archaeology and then by examining how and why archaeology became the commercial, applied part of the sustainable development process that it is today.
Archaeology had a long period of growth from 1990 to 2007, benefiting enormously and growing rapidly on the back of the UK?s construction boom. The book reviews how archaeology worked in that period ? and the changes that followed the publication of PPG 16 ? and then looks in detail at how the sector has been affected by economic changes since 2008 and which areas have gone into decline.
http://www.landward.eu/breaking-new-ground.html
Ebook...!
By Kenneth Aitchison
Who works as a professional archaeologist, what do they do and who do they work for?
This is the first comprehensive review of applied archaeology as a profession in the UK in the twenty-first century, using case studies of organisations and particular archaeological projects to present a contemporary history of professional archaeology that looks at who employs archaeologists, who their clients are and why those clients want archaeological work done.
It examines where the demand for professional archaeological work comes from and how this demand is met, firstly looking at how this has changed from the earliest days of archaeological work, through the era of rescue archaeology and then by examining how and why archaeology became the commercial, applied part of the sustainable development process that it is today.
Archaeology had a long period of growth from 1990 to 2007, benefiting enormously and growing rapidly on the back of the UK?s construction boom. The book reviews how archaeology worked in that period ? and the changes that followed the publication of PPG 16 ? and then looks in detail at how the sector has been affected by economic changes since 2008 and which areas have gone into decline.
http://www.landward.eu/breaking-new-ground.html
Ebook...!
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