20th April 2011, 01:59 PM
that clearly is one model that might suit some people but i am more concerned for those of us that want full time year round employment doing what we love to do. we need to use the southport agenda to our advantage, not by intransigence or obstinacy, but by applying pressure and affecting its implementation.
digging is the heart and sole, the core of everything that archaeology is and wants to be and everybody in the profession should want to do it, have done it, learnt its weirdy ways and its magnificent foibles, so that it can properly inform the work that they do for the betterment of the discipline as a whole
i want to see people enter the profession, serve their time in the field, analyse what they know and tell wonderful stories to a world delighted to hear them
digging is the heart and sole, the core of everything that archaeology is and wants to be and everybody in the profession should want to do it, have done it, learnt its weirdy ways and its magnificent foibles, so that it can properly inform the work that they do for the betterment of the discipline as a whole
i want to see people enter the profession, serve their time in the field, analyse what they know and tell wonderful stories to a world delighted to hear them