16th August 2011, 11:33 PM
BAJR Wrote:hhhmmmm
... SO what is your vision for archaeology? or do you see archaeology in development as a shouty tight H&S box ticking, hi viz helmet wearing po-faced temporal contamination engineer, we are here to do a job, not archaeology type of thingy?
The days of Archaeology as something which is enjoyable are still here... and are a damn sight more fun.
My 'big lie' is that archaeology is fun and educational, a better class than any other out there. Where else can almost all aspects of science meet all aspects of humanties in such a interesting and challenging way. It is basically CSI on steroids.
Which brings me to my vision. 1. there will always be commercial mitigation, museums/curators/regulators, and academics. 2. there will be a forth pillar of archaeology and hopefully bigger then all the others, public archaeology. A nice day out on a public dig with some mates is probably the most enjoyable of any archaeology. Sell the public on how interesting and fun archaeology can be and you can make public archaeology the forth pillar. With lots of nice jobs
not that you asked for my 2 pence but there you go