6th November 2009, 04:24 PM
I thought this thread was about the PPS, not levels of pay in archaeology. But don't give up the day job - you're clearly not the next Lonnie Donegan 
I wasn't trying to say that the public would necessarily be interested in 'the minutiae of academic debate'. But I would agree with Oxbeast in that 'Probably any archaeology which has gone through pre-application determination, evaluation and onto excavation is going to be interesting to the public.'
The parallels with road-building and geotechnical work were frankly really strained and you seemed to be stretching the point somewhat.
In terms of your question: 'How do you decide what might be of interest to the public, what form does it take etc?'
Why is this a minefield? and why should it be so difficult for the archaeological community to address? It's not as if there are no examples of publicly engaged archaeology to draw on in the development or voluntary sectors. The PPS etc merely seeks to build upon the good work that has already been done elsewhere and under the existing PPG. The difference now being that public engagement is actually in there. Some bad thing? :face-confused:
I wasn't trying to say that the public would necessarily be interested in 'the minutiae of academic debate'. But I would agree with Oxbeast in that 'Probably any archaeology which has gone through pre-application determination, evaluation and onto excavation is going to be interesting to the public.'
The parallels with road-building and geotechnical work were frankly really strained and you seemed to be stretching the point somewhat.
In terms of your question: 'How do you decide what might be of interest to the public, what form does it take etc?'
Why is this a minefield? and why should it be so difficult for the archaeological community to address? It's not as if there are no examples of publicly engaged archaeology to draw on in the development or voluntary sectors. The PPS etc merely seeks to build upon the good work that has already been done elsewhere and under the existing PPG. The difference now being that public engagement is actually in there. Some bad thing? :face-confused:
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