18th July 2004, 10:51 AM
I?ve lost my copy of this so I can?t check it for what it said exactly but I remember having similar feelings. It seemed to give the impression that site work was something that should be got over with as quickly as possible before you settled into a desk job and became a ?proper? archaeologist.
I don?t know whether anyone else thinks this but I have always detected a faint hint of snobbishness from the editors of Current Archaeology about professional archaeologists. Almost as though wanting to get paid for digging is not quite the done thing and that we should return to the old days of doing it all with students and volunteers. Still, perhaps its just me.
I don?t know whether anyone else thinks this but I have always detected a faint hint of snobbishness from the editors of Current Archaeology about professional archaeologists. Almost as though wanting to get paid for digging is not quite the done thing and that we should return to the old days of doing it all with students and volunteers. Still, perhaps its just me.