4th December 2010, 04:04 PM
Chiz - go along with pretty much all of that, glad to hear that these are widespread practices even if certainly not universal :face-approve:
However, I've had a few conversations with people running 'research' excavations who've been painfully ignorant of archaeology in the surrounding area, even just the other side of the hedge - an awful lot of academics still seem to regard their pet summer dig as an isolated spot on the map whose only significant context (in their universe) is the half dozen similar published sites dug in the 1950s at the other end of the country.....clearly parts of academia still don't regard commercial 'grey' output, and the people producing it, as worthy of their attention, and until they do all this cooperation etc ain't gonna work, shame, I'm all for it (as long as someone else does the site tours for the 8-year olds, still haven't mastered that yet....)
However, I've had a few conversations with people running 'research' excavations who've been painfully ignorant of archaeology in the surrounding area, even just the other side of the hedge - an awful lot of academics still seem to regard their pet summer dig as an isolated spot on the map whose only significant context (in their universe) is the half dozen similar published sites dug in the 1950s at the other end of the country.....clearly parts of academia still don't regard commercial 'grey' output, and the people producing it, as worthy of their attention, and until they do all this cooperation etc ain't gonna work, shame, I'm all for it (as long as someone else does the site tours for the 8-year olds, still haven't mastered that yet....)