16th March 2011, 04:21 PM
....which is sort of what I'm getting at in a roundabout way. Archaeology (as a broad discipline, not the commercial entity) needs social representation and the sort of services the CBA could have been identified for. That is why I feel any cut to an organisation like the CBA is a hit on archaeology.
But it doesn't mean the CBA can claim to currently be providing those services which are required. I wouldn't dismiss those people who the CBA does currently cater for either, but I personally want to see someone providing a broader and more effective service to society and archaeology - something like what BAJR is doing in communities but with a national remit which I haven't seen the CBA provide in the last decade or so and which I suspect they have now missed the funding boat on, leaving archaeology open to further attacks without that broader consolidated community support base.
But it doesn't mean the CBA can claim to currently be providing those services which are required. I wouldn't dismiss those people who the CBA does currently cater for either, but I personally want to see someone providing a broader and more effective service to society and archaeology - something like what BAJR is doing in communities but with a national remit which I haven't seen the CBA provide in the last decade or so and which I suspect they have now missed the funding boat on, leaving archaeology open to further attacks without that broader consolidated community support base.