20th July 2011, 08:57 PM
BAJR Wrote:Welcome to Past Horizons with upwards of 5-10,000 readers. (you see we don't just flog trowels!)
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com
would be more if more archaeologists read it
And for commercial glossy and sexy.. try these (all very popular taking thousands of reads)
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/...erspective
(Wessex) Submerged prehistory off Scotland: a development-led perspective
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/...f-the-past
(Oxford Arch North) Roman settlement reconstruction provides a picture of the past
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/...osterfield
(Mike Griffiths & Associates Ltd) 7000 years of Nosterfield - the Thornborough Henges
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/...roman-fort
(Northern Archaeological Associates) Child’s footprints found beside a Roman Fort
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/...say-orkney
(ORCA) Excavations at Banks Chambered Tomb, South Ronaldsay, Orkney
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/...estershire
(Cotswold Archaeology) Early Roman site found in Gloucestershire near Stroud
I could go on... and that is just the UK ones! over 500 articles in the last 9 months!
and more coming from Network Archaeology, CFA, AOC, and more and more.
Why? because as you all say, it is needed to show what we do. and what we do can be amazing. I thank you ... now get reading!
AS you aslo say, it is not that some volunteer groups could not do a good job, but they can't commit to 5 days a week for teh next 6 weeks ? :face-huh:
Ahem, apologies for the oversight. Although I was meaning something that specifically covered only work carried out through development funded work, rather than interspersed with such a vast array of topics. Obviously Past Horizons is covering much of this pretty well, it would be interesting to know who was reading it rather than just the numbers. I doubt a magazine including just commercial work would be able to generate enough content though. As for confidentiality - it wouldn't need to be so bang up to date that that would be a problem and as Past Horizons demonstrates it can be done.
As for volunteers committing to 5 days a week for 6 weeks? Some maybe could, retired and still fit enough? Besides, perhaps for the larger projects it would remain impractical but for smaller ones?
The issue perhaps with all of this is that there must now be plenty of people in archaeology who have worked their entire professional lives under PPG or similar, up to 20 years in some cases. Those people perhaps have every reason to be worried at they present situation, which looks to be heading back to a world they don't understand, have no experience in, and the prospects are pretty worrying. (If I see that pinched for a film pitch I'm claiming copyright - Gravelly Voice: 'They were headed back to a world they didn't understand and had no experience in and it was pretty worrying' nominated for 2 oscars!) They also don't have the benefit of the strangely rose-tinted spectacles that others have.