Q: how many archaeologists does it take to ruin an industry?

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[SIZE=3]GPSTONE-We really need everyone in this industry at all levels to start taking on and behaving in a way that can be considered personally and professionally responsible. That requires awareness and personal education and responsibility (it doesn't, however, mean we all have to start wearing suits and behaving like miniature careerist managers). And no offence intended to those people across all aspects of this profession that do already, and there are many.
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I decided to define what the professional field archaeologist produces (all off my own back and with no help from anybody in the business). I came up with copyright. And I take that copyright to be of observations of the physical world. Often these observations cannot be repeated by anybody else. I then sell or loan out this copyright. When people hire me they are getting my ability to produce this copyright. I think that this makes me relatively clear headed in what I am doing and how it needs to be done.

I don’t think many in the business think my way, particularly those who have come through the system of the last twenty or thirty years. As I have previously highlighted and indeed said of BAJRs salary scales, no one appears to have the title of archaeologist in the business. I know of many examples of people who carried out the field work, who subsequently fell out with the management and claimed the archive that they produced but were refused it. I take it that everybody will try to rip of my archaeological copyright or pretend that it is not the most important asset of a field archaeologist. Sad thing is that often, because it is so over looked in the business, they don’t know that they are doing it. In most cases it becomes some aspect of employment law, for some class war or straight forward left vie right politics.

This is the world of the last twenty or thirty years

[SIZE=3]DINO-Don't do management, just attempt to turn their grand schemes into a quality reality despite all the hurdles thrown in my path, of which wingeing workforce who can't be bothered to pass a driving test and expect to be ferried around to the shops etc in my car during my time and at my expense come pretty high up the list (top marks to the guy on the M1A1 who announced at 7.30 one evening while I was eating my tea before heading to the pub for a few well-earned beers that he had a critical medical appointment at 8pm 20 miles away...got back at midnight...tosser), closely followed by those who seem unable (despite all attempts to train them otherwise) to record stuff in an intelligeable manner to a remotely adequate standard thereby wasting even more of my time - sorry to those reading this who can do all this, but there are an awful lot of you out there who can't, even if you think you can (which is even more annoying)
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Who is the field archaeologist here? Without one there is no such thing as field archaeology. The establishment through charity units like molas and all the rest set up the archaeological structures which we still have to day. The private companies have mostly copied those structures. Occasionally you hear about cooperative ventures but I have yet to hear about ones where the field archaeologist is distinctly defined.