30th January 2010, 03:49 AM
I agree Windbag...that pretty much sums it up.
Although a French based colleague tells me that the INRAP decentralisation question is a smokescreen behind which deeper structural changes are being effected, in particular the opening up of the French archaeological 'market' to competitive tendering. This is causing great concern to French archaeologists. Very few are convinced that the model upon which a revision of the French system is being based i.e how archaeology works in the UK, is viable, and is likely to be of little benefit to either the archaeology of France or the career aspirations of French archaeologists.
They could have a point......!!
Although a French based colleague tells me that the INRAP decentralisation question is a smokescreen behind which deeper structural changes are being effected, in particular the opening up of the French archaeological 'market' to competitive tendering. This is causing great concern to French archaeologists. Very few are convinced that the model upon which a revision of the French system is being based i.e how archaeology works in the UK, is viable, and is likely to be of little benefit to either the archaeology of France or the career aspirations of French archaeologists.
They could have a point......!!
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