21st August 2011, 07:50 PM
I must agree with Doug... and Dino should remember as well. I was working in York when it came in, and the rise of teh commercial started then - a few years later I was working for another company in teh area in competition... but as Doug says it evolved... and went in a direction that was not what was expected. Cut throat cost based archaeology was not teh point of PPG 16. plus, we had to learn the ropes, and if you look at the stats, the rise of the commercial can be traced in teh numbers of diggers... from a few hundred in teh 80s to thousands in the 90s and early 21st century... rising year on year.
People can see teh end of commercial archaeology right now. It is happening RIGHT now! now the question is.... shrug and let it die? OR evolve!
People can see teh end of commercial archaeology right now. It is happening RIGHT now! now the question is.... shrug and let it die? OR evolve!