23rd February 2011, 01:51 PM
(This post was last modified: 23rd February 2011, 01:52 PM by kevin wooldridge.)
Windbag Wrote:It's a shame that money takes such a prominent role in both commercial and academic archaeology, but we as a society have limited resources and need to mobilize those resources to match society's expectations as best we can
That is to an extent true, but it only needs a small change in emphasis to completely change the 'end-product' of a lot of commercial archaeology. What if curators were to insist that planning conditions related to archaeology would only be fulfilled once a synthetic analysis of the the results of the excavation were achieved and the results made available to the wider public (I hesitate to use the word 'published' in this context, as maybe that has connatations of paper and printers ink)?
Maybe they could use PPS 5 to enforce such conditions - or maybe not!!
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