17th November 2010, 11:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 18th November 2010, 02:00 PM by vulpes.)
this is hardly a new issue and the fact that it has been raised now says more about FAME than any press release, the SMA (who actually have to curate the stuff) have been shouting about it for some time. No curators = no work (or at least, very little), and therefore no archives to deposit. Would suggest a peculiar sense of priorities seems to be apparent despite this being an ongoing issue.
As for GK's statement - there have been some particularly notable academic projects on commercial archive material recently. e.g. the isotope analysis carried out on early Bronze Age cattle bone from a Gayhurst barrow by Bradford University here: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/8514/ An important read for any prehistorian.
As for GK's statement - there have been some particularly notable academic projects on commercial archive material recently. e.g. the isotope analysis carried out on early Bronze Age cattle bone from a Gayhurst barrow by Bradford University here: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/8514/ An important read for any prehistorian.