12th June 2005, 12:21 PM
Greetings you lot. This thread has the potential to get a bit painful for certain entities-I like this.... discussing professional ethics like this is paramount if we are to have any real stab at initiating change. Our work as archaeologists abroad is likely to be high profile and so it is here that we should be seen to be exporting respected professional ethics. Diggin abroad can be politically sensitive and I don`t believe that we can brush this aside in the pursuit of profit and kudos in the same way that it is in PPG land over here. A separate issue now current on this thread is the professional standards with which archaeology is hit. I`ve seen some tear-jerking tragedies in my short time on the circuit.Archaeology quite literally butchered alive by "professionals". Please don`t forget that I am trying to document examples of where this happened/happens within a commercial/research U.K context. The resulting document will be passed to BAJR first then on to the IFA (without names of places/people/unit names)in an attempt to show them what real archaeology is like. Examples please-not on here but via my e-mail.
As Oxford is just yet another commercial unit, I would say that it`s just another...commercial unit really. God not involved. God provides Prophet for the benefit of mankind, Units take profit at the expense of mankind. Just a quick one to Fatty,personal jibes don`t go down very well on here. Welcome to you but please, keep it to the issues on board. Oh, and before I forget, I don`t really think your suggested links found on your profile will make you at all popular either.
BAJR is accessible to a worldwide audience, the most important of whom in my opinion, are children and young uns. We are lucky in that children in general, already have an interest in heritage and, archaeology especially. BAJR is an excellent and sadly, non-funded, resource that provides for all and, for children in particular, is an un-rivalled starting point when the favourite question "but why?" needs urgent attention! Please re-consider your suggested "cool links". Thanks.
As Oxford is just yet another commercial unit, I would say that it`s just another...commercial unit really. God not involved. God provides Prophet for the benefit of mankind, Units take profit at the expense of mankind. Just a quick one to Fatty,personal jibes don`t go down very well on here. Welcome to you but please, keep it to the issues on board. Oh, and before I forget, I don`t really think your suggested links found on your profile will make you at all popular either. BAJR is accessible to a worldwide audience, the most important of whom in my opinion, are children and young uns. We are lucky in that children in general, already have an interest in heritage and, archaeology especially. BAJR is an excellent and sadly, non-funded, resource that provides for all and, for children in particular, is an un-rivalled starting point when the favourite question "but why?" needs urgent attention! Please re-consider your suggested "cool links". Thanks.