15th November 2011, 07:07 PM
Marcus Brody Wrote:Because postgrads definitely know how to excavate and record a site?????
(Before anyone writes an impassioned defence of the field skills of postgrads, let me point out that this was intended as a joke)
Eeerm...my personal experience many moons ago on my first university 'training' dig was an almost eye-watering rate of promotion once it was realised that I'd actually done a load of digging pre-uni on circuit sites...seemed to mysteriously get all the fun complicated bits of digging/surveying/recording/whatever else needed doing, at least it meant I avoided having to go near all the bad trowelling etc...then off the back of that got lots of valuable experience helping with the post-ex trying to sort out the multi-year excav, which was a bit of an eye-opener.....