22nd February 2011, 11:02 AM
still looking for those celebrity names to light up those skies....(new Time Team series on the way..? Niel Oliver ?)
of course a cabal of prominent academics from obvious institutions would also be good (Gosden/Pit rivers, McGregor/BM, the Ashmolean, ........ but perhaps they are they are too politically constrained....as might any archaeological Lords)
it is not unfortunately not just a case of Knowledge Hungry Archaeologists standing firm in a Commercial Environment.....part of the problem is our own evolved work practice and culture, in which we have ourselves (in many routine ways) managed to devalue archaeological knowledge...while fighting for our profession in society, we might as well try to reform some of the fatuous and wind-baggy nonsense that has grown without much reference to fact.
of course a cabal of prominent academics from obvious institutions would also be good (Gosden/Pit rivers, McGregor/BM, the Ashmolean, ........ but perhaps they are they are too politically constrained....as might any archaeological Lords)
it is not unfortunately not just a case of Knowledge Hungry Archaeologists standing firm in a Commercial Environment.....part of the problem is our own evolved work practice and culture, in which we have ourselves (in many routine ways) managed to devalue archaeological knowledge...while fighting for our profession in society, we might as well try to reform some of the fatuous and wind-baggy nonsense that has grown without much reference to fact.