17th April 2006, 02:47 PM
I agree Troll, but the two are linked: Get the pay and conditions right and the talented, experienced staff will no longer disappear... Surely one of archaeology's greatest problems. Get to a stage in your career when you are competent to tackle most things, get laid off, don't get enough money to support a family, bugger off to pastures new and leave it all to the new, keen graduates...