22nd January 2006, 10:50 PM
well, there has always been enough contemporary archaeology around, until people start getting rid of it cause there's too much of it around, its not interesting or important, and we understand it all anyway. Personally, I really don't find industrial and 19th/20th century archaeology interesting, but if we feel we can just get rid of it all without recording at least some of it, then in hundreds of years it will be as rare and ill understood as the stuff we spend our lives excavating. And why should we just preserve the great and the good? sod the House of Lords, I'm more interested in that row of 19th century worker's cottages that the present government seems so keen to get rid of because it will somehow improve slum areas. worked well in the 60s didn't it guys...
++ i spend my days rummaging around in dead people ++
++ i spend my days rummaging around in dead people ++