15th April 2010, 03:23 PM
I guess there is good and bad in both accademic and commercial spheres, I've read site reports of insanity, seen first hand accademics writing context sheets for a lay that wasn't there and had to explain what a post-pipe was and what the seperate deposits in a post-hole mean during a debate about the charred grain found at a neolithic longhouse. I was shocked at that one to see so many blank faces!
Both spheres have strengths and weaknesses in the way they approach archaeology. Both sides seem to misunderstand each other, both sides need to comunicate better.
As to comments about accademic diggers not being valued on a commercial dig........ I've had experience at both ends of the scale: the problematic, cranky, exceptionally experienced, exceptionally useful, font of vital knowledge craftsman (person); and the slow know-it-all, b*llsh*tter who wont and can't learn and fails to grasp that for a fair days pay you must do a fairs days work........}
Both spheres have strengths and weaknesses in the way they approach archaeology. Both sides seem to misunderstand each other, both sides need to comunicate better.
As to comments about accademic diggers not being valued on a commercial dig........ I've had experience at both ends of the scale: the problematic, cranky, exceptionally experienced, exceptionally useful, font of vital knowledge craftsman (person); and the slow know-it-all, b*llsh*tter who wont and can't learn and fails to grasp that for a fair days pay you must do a fairs days work........}