17th April 2006, 06:42 PM
A downside to that could be that a two tier system is created if, it doesn't exist already (formalises it if it does) as NVQ "practical" people are differentiated from degree types. A "digger" with NVQ's becomes a manual worker, albeit skilled, and may or may not if the neolithic comes before or after the bronze age. It doesn't matter if he/she does or does not, they are there for their skill with the trowel, the mattock and the planning frame. They need not concern themselves with current thinking on neolithic or bronze age society, for example, or why stiff "X" was crouched but stiff "Y" was cremated. All they need to know is how to whip 'em out fast.
One must then go on to wonder if they are, therefore, actually archaeologists at all.
We owe the dead nothing but the truth.
One must then go on to wonder if they are, therefore, actually archaeologists at all.
We owe the dead nothing but the truth.