14th March 2010, 01:55 PM
You do defintely get a few who think they are, which always makes me smile when I'm re-writing their context sheets.
I don't think we can or should expect people to be entirely confident and fully trained when they first walk onto site. It isn't possible to train people to do archaeology in a class room - you have to get the "knack" in real life. University training digs are ok but many students need to do paid work during the holidays simply in order to live.
I like looking after new kids, it's refershing to work with somone who isn't totally cynical and still has a bit of enthusiam left, as opposed to all of the miserable old codgers I put up with usually (and I include myself in this).
We all have a duty to train them.
I don't think we can or should expect people to be entirely confident and fully trained when they first walk onto site. It isn't possible to train people to do archaeology in a class room - you have to get the "knack" in real life. University training digs are ok but many students need to do paid work during the holidays simply in order to live.
I like looking after new kids, it's refershing to work with somone who isn't totally cynical and still has a bit of enthusiam left, as opposed to all of the miserable old codgers I put up with usually (and I include myself in this).
We all have a duty to train them.