17th October 2011, 12:04 PM
Practical skills are as important as Knowledge in archaeology if not more so and the thing about skills is that you never stop honing them and trying to get better. just as with anything else learn the basics PROPERLY and remember them. NEVER assume that you know whats under the ground and only interpret when ALL the evidence has been gathered. this is, after all, a forensic science not a miss marple mystery. Finally arogance has no place in archaeology. It just gets in the way. we are searching for the truth of the past not the big i am of the present are we not? Doing the job to your best ability yet not being made to feel as though you can't ask for help or admit a mistake. mistakes can be put right, hiding them causes more problems in the future. blah, blah, blah, Maybe you should have word with the police forensics dept. see how they do it????