Dinosaur Wrote:Eh? Commercial archaeology was created almost overnight by PPG16! Apart from a tiny amount of stuff (mainly in London) most sites prior to that had been central government funded, either directly from the MoW/DoE/SDD/EH etc, or latterly indirectly through the CP! That can all be taken away just as quickly by a change in government policy, eg if they decided that heritage should no longer be a material consideration in the planning system
I should clarify- All heritage sectors are created instantly by a law, PPG16 (UK) 1968 and 1979 heritage laws (US). Yet, that doesn't mean a heritage sector was created overnight. Yeah, people started companies and started doing work but it took years to stabilize as lots of archies who didn't know how to run a dig tried to run a business and went bankrupt. Curators had to figure out what they were doing. What an acceptable report was.
Details, Details, Details, etc. take time to figure you could say we are still in that process.
If you were around back in the day it was like the wild west and it like that in every country that pasts a commercial sector law. Look at France now- no one is quite sure what is going on.
Overnight????????????????????????????????????- not sure if you ever had to do civics classes but it takes months and years to change anything in government. Look at Southport that has been going on for what roughly 2 years now and will be another few years before something happens. PPG16 didn't happen over night people saw it coming and people will see the end of commercial archaeology coming too.