13th August 2008, 01:23 PM
Oh it has been noted, for anwers to some of your queries look up the 'Future Monopoly?' posts (a couple of pages back in this forum, its useful until it descends into a rant).
I'm with you on the sad end to local units but on the plus side, for the moment the local knowledge has been retained, however it remains to be seen how this pans out in the long term.
I think the new uber-unit has the potential to conduct even more research within the bounds of commercial archaeology but it does smack of a corporate juggernaught steamrollering what were local archaeological organisations. It will be interesting how the generally 'liberal' archaeological population view such a corporate outlook.
I'm with you on the sad end to local units but on the plus side, for the moment the local knowledge has been retained, however it remains to be seen how this pans out in the long term.
I think the new uber-unit has the potential to conduct even more research within the bounds of commercial archaeology but it does smack of a corporate juggernaught steamrollering what were local archaeological organisations. It will be interesting how the generally 'liberal' archaeological population view such a corporate outlook.