12th May 2007, 10:11 PM
There is a very good article by the noted medievalist Alan Brown attempting to slap down archaeologist studying castles which was written in the early 80s - cannot remember the exact date, it is published in Archaeological Journal.
To broadly quote, from memory:
Archaeologist should remember that they are narrow specialists within the field of history" and effectively should know their place.
Now, as 1 man and his desk has said, we are the wider specialism and some historians I know are doing interesting work looking at the context and curation of documents effectively studying them as archaeological artefacts.
Archaeology ends when I go to the pub on Friday after work.
To broadly quote, from memory:
Archaeologist should remember that they are narrow specialists within the field of history" and effectively should know their place.
Now, as 1 man and his desk has said, we are the wider specialism and some historians I know are doing interesting work looking at the context and curation of documents effectively studying them as archaeological artefacts.
Archaeology ends when I go to the pub on Friday after work.