21st May 2009, 10:01 PM
Honest answer...don`t know. I think its too early to tell and from what I can see, a fair amount of the jobs on offer are desk-based. There also seems to be an increase in heritage related jobs and courses offered by universities (jobs.ac.uk website) and, a number of positions in landscape management and community archaeology. Will we see field archaeologists move away from temping agencies and daytime tv anytime soon? All depends on the development and infrastructure industry I suppose. Which of course,in turn depends upon willing banks. Whatever happens, it will be interesting to see if field staff come back fatter (through biccies and tv) or on the point of starvation after a cheap diet of dole food!
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..knowledge without action is insanity and action without knowledge is vanity..(imam ghazali,ayyuhal-walad)