10th July 2005, 03:21 PM
aching has the issue firmly grasped...
we must work together.. not in control but together.. we could in fact do rather nicely if we did... discovering new sites, recovering artefacts that would otherwise be destroyed, creating a sence of Shared Heritage. etc.
I also want to add that archaeolgoists learning how to use detectors would best learn that skill from detectorists... I have to laugh sometimes at ..
a) Archaeological Contractor using what could only be described as a toy detector...
b) Historic Scotlands own leaflet on MDs showing a fake detectorist with the detector head on the wrong way round and held at above ancle height.
Personally... if I want some one to do osteology I get an osteologist...if I want dendrochronology I get a dendrochronologist IF I want an MD survey I do not get an archaeolgist who has read the instructions of a new machine - I would prefer someone who knows what they are doing.
As to Night hawks... that is a separate issue... like the difference between a Professional Archaeologist and a Tomb Robber.
Feel free to pursue Nighthawks.. you will not be alone in your hatred of them.. detectorists included.
Another day another WSI?
we must work together.. not in control but together.. we could in fact do rather nicely if we did... discovering new sites, recovering artefacts that would otherwise be destroyed, creating a sence of Shared Heritage. etc.
I also want to add that archaeolgoists learning how to use detectors would best learn that skill from detectorists... I have to laugh sometimes at ..
a) Archaeological Contractor using what could only be described as a toy detector...
b) Historic Scotlands own leaflet on MDs showing a fake detectorist with the detector head on the wrong way round and held at above ancle height.
Personally... if I want some one to do osteology I get an osteologist...if I want dendrochronology I get a dendrochronologist IF I want an MD survey I do not get an archaeolgist who has read the instructions of a new machine - I would prefer someone who knows what they are doing.
As to Night hawks... that is a separate issue... like the difference between a Professional Archaeologist and a Tomb Robber.
Feel free to pursue Nighthawks.. you will not be alone in your hatred of them.. detectorists included.
Another day another WSI?