29th June 2011, 01:41 PM
Doug Wrote:I think I will be the voice of decent on this idea that degrees should not teach commercial archaeology.
I will join this decent and for the following reasons:
i contend that archaeology is fundamentally concerned with interpretting the past
the vast majority of archaeological interpretation is undertaken in the commercial sector
ergo - to study / understand archaeology one needs to understand the commercial sector and to do this students of archaeology should be required to work/learn and interpret in the commercial sector
and then they might become an archaeologist
can you tell how bored with this i am