8th June 2005, 10:56 PM
Venutius-Greetings. Think things across the board are in desperate need of appraisal and yes, I agree, transparantly and in public. Quite how and when that happens is another matter. As archaeologists (of all persuasions and flavours thereof) we would have to explore this route fully before dashing to the press. On a personal note, I feel that without careful preparation, the parasites in the media would simply manipulate the story. What is needed is common ground, many varied voices and a set of realistic and ultimately achieveable goals. At the minute, we all shout here on BAJR (God bless em`) with all the appropriate ingredients but are still a disparate community. Theres lots of experience and expertise behind every contributor, a powerful lobby together methinks... will e-mail you this weekend for a natter.