16th April 2010, 11:05 PM
"you need the people who have done the site work (hopefully at least one of whom is writing it up!) to have done their job properly and actually thought about it. You can't decide what the relationship between those two ditches is unless someone has worked it out at the time!" - Oldgirl.
do you mean we cant just rely on them being Temporal Waste Contamination Removers?
-however i have seen the "ditch relationship" argument turned grossly head-over-ass at times...i have heard an excavator say that they do not believe a reliable single relationship can be concluded from there investigation - their manager has turned round and told them that they bloody well better find a relationship (there has to be a relationship...), and nobody else is in the position to 'find' it (otherwise i'll have too just try and guess in post-ex [somebody sack this person...we need nice clear drawings and records, not uncertainties...])
well i heard some of that... it is also possible for poor managers to state 'we have empowered our diggers, look, they do their own interpretations, and nobody is better placed...' - but without concomitant Guidance, Leadership, Insight and Archaeological Vision these 'best-placed persons' become unconscious participants in a Management lead culture of quantity over quality, 'simplicity is best for me' mentalities, and a race to scrape the floor with methodological and interpretive standards....
As stands at present, sometimes the digger is not the best placed person, because they have not been guided (or have been misguided), because they enmeshed in Company Culture and Ways of Doing Things, and because they are under pressure to simplify to the point of absurdity...
do you mean we cant just rely on them being Temporal Waste Contamination Removers?
-however i have seen the "ditch relationship" argument turned grossly head-over-ass at times...i have heard an excavator say that they do not believe a reliable single relationship can be concluded from there investigation - their manager has turned round and told them that they bloody well better find a relationship (there has to be a relationship...), and nobody else is in the position to 'find' it (otherwise i'll have too just try and guess in post-ex [somebody sack this person...we need nice clear drawings and records, not uncertainties...])
well i heard some of that... it is also possible for poor managers to state 'we have empowered our diggers, look, they do their own interpretations, and nobody is better placed...' - but without concomitant Guidance, Leadership, Insight and Archaeological Vision these 'best-placed persons' become unconscious participants in a Management lead culture of quantity over quality, 'simplicity is best for me' mentalities, and a race to scrape the floor with methodological and interpretive standards....
As stands at present, sometimes the digger is not the best placed person, because they have not been guided (or have been misguided), because they enmeshed in Company Culture and Ways of Doing Things, and because they are under pressure to simplify to the point of absurdity...