11th February 2008, 08:51 PM
There appears to be concenus. Working in a range of places and on a range of different sites is a good thing.
I take Paul point if you do a lot of work in a particular area you do have an advantage because of accummulated knowledge and resources but you do not have to actually be based there to have either of those things. I think one issue is how difficult is it to obtain that local knowledge or resource? (The critism made by Baker was that us consultants could not be bothered to do such research.)
There is the notion that organisations have a collective knowledge of a particular area. I would suggest it is the people who have that knowledge so if somebody working for X Archaeology has not worked in Xshire before they may not know which county they are in or if they are within or without the city walls.
Lets assume that such local knowledge is essiential and you have to have that local knowledge before being able to work in a particular area how are we to measure that knowledge and thus establish what is the minimum required level? We also have to define local.
Peter
I take Paul point if you do a lot of work in a particular area you do have an advantage because of accummulated knowledge and resources but you do not have to actually be based there to have either of those things. I think one issue is how difficult is it to obtain that local knowledge or resource? (The critism made by Baker was that us consultants could not be bothered to do such research.)
There is the notion that organisations have a collective knowledge of a particular area. I would suggest it is the people who have that knowledge so if somebody working for X Archaeology has not worked in Xshire before they may not know which county they are in or if they are within or without the city walls.
Lets assume that such local knowledge is essiential and you have to have that local knowledge before being able to work in a particular area how are we to measure that knowledge and thus establish what is the minimum required level? We also have to define local.
Peter