26th January 2012, 12:57 AM
Quote:[SIZE=3]I'm confused, Unit: you think it's a good thing that you an ignore standards but a bad thing that there is an initiative to apply standards to address precisely the variability in practice you complain about.[/SIZE]
Don?t think that I have complaint about any variability in practice particularly of curators. Most of their activity is to keep archaeologists away from case officers or council planning committies. Tend to think that they should be put out of their misery and that would make the world a much better place. I think that all planning applications like environmental impact assessments provided by the developer should include an archaeological consideration provided by the developer open to objection from the public and other archaeologists ?who would be able to judge the clearly documented assessment of significance.
Quote:[SIZE=3]Archaeological advice on the investigation and stewardship of the historic environment must aim to benefit the public both now and in the future, through the advancement of understanding, sustainablemanagement of the resource and the realisation of social, environmental or economic benefits.[/SIZE]
Why this English is better than my Nigerian. Is this really English or is it the language of the loophole? The above standaRD has got three ands and two commas and an or. I think that it says archaeological advice must aim to benefit the public. gosh but what is archaeological and what is advice
As far as I understand it the ?advisors? advise the authorising authority like Eh advise the government I dont remember the public being directly mentioned. But the authorities want advice on archaeology from archaeologists so we get
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[SIZE=3]Advice [/SIZE][SIZE=3]must be clear, consistent, compliant, reasonable, timely, informed and impartial, and proportionate to a reasoned and clearly-documented assessment of significance. Advice must be provided by suitably qualified,skilled and competent practitioners[/SIZE]
Now competent practitioner means: archaeologist or advice giver or is that archaeological advice giver. Whats going on with this standard is that the advice givers are saying that archaeologists cannot advise the authorities, that it must be done through them and basically that all archaeologists are scum and to prove it they want to protect the public from our really bad ways of doing evaluations.
Martin does the world in crisis need them? No Vote for baby incubators
Reason: your past is my past