17th March 2011, 02:32 PM
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[SIZE=4]Until there is a chartered organisation, until there are enforceable standards, until there is one set of rules that we must all sign up to, uphold, adhere to, believe in, that sets us on the same path together - and in direct relation to other, similarly skilled but more prestigious professions (engineering, architecture, etc) - it's all just pissing in the wind.
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[SIZE=4]We must all accept that, fundamentally, a child or a pensioner working in a trench for the first time on a community project is just as much an archaeologist as a graduate member of a Unit or a senior academic.
Sorry but it?s a bit of a mess which I think allows me to make no difference. Should someone pay the same rates of insurance if they are an amateur, pensioner, graduate or chartered professional? Seems to me that there is a fundamental difference between insured archaeology and uninsured archaeology and those that are insured and not. Insured archaeologists is the path to set. CBA/IFA once appeared to control archaeological insurance, we know that to be not so and now the only point of them has disappeared.
Reason: your past is my past