25th May 2010, 01:23 PM
Quote:CA is cheap and irresponsible ego massaging and defiantly undermines professional jobs in archaeology every single time it is funded and it is funded constantly by bodies that take authority away from the profession and we let them to our detriment.
Here is one for you to get going on straight away.
I ran it... so look forward to your comments..
here is the report... of course there was lots more happened, a video, a dance in teh hall, open days, lectures etc...
enjoy
http://www.scribd.com/doc/7378480/Big-Cousland-Dig-2008
crap job? taking money out the mouths of starving archaeologists? removing money that would have been used better to train archaeologists? and worst of all, everyone had fun and went away with a senses of being involved... bring young and old together, communities together and making a real past. As it happens, a planning application went in afterwards for an area that had been looked at... and yes a commercial company went in as well.... but to my knowledge, the community still don't know what was found