3rd February 2006, 01:50 PM
Agreed.Misinformation however can only be an environment cultivated in ignorance.As an industry, this will continue to return and bite us-unless we pro-actively plan for an informed voting public.The archaeologists who find themselves in the middle of the entire barrage at Thornborough will just have to put up with it.It happens to be a bit of a contraversial issue.Most people in the UK have never even met an archaeologist (some professionals would admit this too!) let alone have a grasp at varience with the bite-sized view of the spoon-fed television entertainment version, of just what it is that archaeologists do.We can`t suddenly become sensitive when assumptions are made.We laid our own bed......"raise the value of archaeology and of archaeologists in the public eye.." was a little pledge from a certain organisation that I heard years ago. That was all that I heard.If a client had levelled some of the quoted accusations at the archaeologists concerned-the usual machinery would have been put in motion.The client at Thornborough is the public too.Inform them.
..knowledge without action is insanity and action without knowledge is vanity..(imam ghazali,ayyuhal-walad)
..knowledge without action is insanity and action without knowledge is vanity..(imam ghazali,ayyuhal-walad)