24th March 2011, 01:28 PM
Q: how many archaeologists does it take to ruin an industry?
A: all of us
Q: how many archaeologists does it take to save an industry?
A: more than currently are
Over on http://www.bajrfed.co.uk/showthread.php?4066-Open-Letter-on-Cuts-and-working-together
?They? have come up with a Mortimer and as always they are trying to do the same thing that the ifa and the cba have most screwed up and which has most screwed those associations which is conflagrating the industry archaeology and the individual ?archaeologist?. I want an industry with individual archaeologists in it. I want you and me to be called archaeologists and I want to make a living from being an archaeologist.
As it stands there is no industry called archaeology and there are no individuals called mortimers sorry archaeologists or to answer the question: it is impossible for archaeologists to ruin the industry as neither exist.
But in my quest to pin down the essence of archaeologist currently I am working on-
A mortimer is someone who has their own public indemnity insurance for their trowel and tools.
Basically if you put your tools say down and someone else trips up on them you are liable (even though you have paid your national insurance). Now there are a lot of people out there who work on someone else?s insurance or a company insurance and this is where it gets very difficult to ascertain if the individual is a mortimer sorry archaeologist.
As it stands I am not sure if professional indemnity is required or indeed if it is possible that a trowel should have professional indemnity. There is also the limits to this public indemnity insurance for tools. Just yesterday the client supplied a 17 ton tracked machine for an evaluation in their clients field. Now the brief said that it was to be used under archaeological control which I very presumptuously presumed that was me, such is another essence of currently being a professional archaeologist, the presuming that one is and that one has to be one to take archaeological control.
I hope this encourages others to become a mortimer
A: all of us
Q: how many archaeologists does it take to save an industry?
A: more than currently are
Over on http://www.bajrfed.co.uk/showthread.php?4066-Open-Letter-on-Cuts-and-working-together
?They? have come up with a Mortimer and as always they are trying to do the same thing that the ifa and the cba have most screwed up and which has most screwed those associations which is conflagrating the industry archaeology and the individual ?archaeologist?. I want an industry with individual archaeologists in it. I want you and me to be called archaeologists and I want to make a living from being an archaeologist.
As it stands there is no industry called archaeology and there are no individuals called mortimers sorry archaeologists or to answer the question: it is impossible for archaeologists to ruin the industry as neither exist.
But in my quest to pin down the essence of archaeologist currently I am working on-
A mortimer is someone who has their own public indemnity insurance for their trowel and tools.
Basically if you put your tools say down and someone else trips up on them you are liable (even though you have paid your national insurance). Now there are a lot of people out there who work on someone else?s insurance or a company insurance and this is where it gets very difficult to ascertain if the individual is a mortimer sorry archaeologist.
As it stands I am not sure if professional indemnity is required or indeed if it is possible that a trowel should have professional indemnity. There is also the limits to this public indemnity insurance for tools. Just yesterday the client supplied a 17 ton tracked machine for an evaluation in their clients field. Now the brief said that it was to be used under archaeological control which I very presumptuously presumed that was me, such is another essence of currently being a professional archaeologist, the presuming that one is and that one has to be one to take archaeological control.
I hope this encourages others to become a mortimer
Reason: your past is my past