8th March 2012, 02:43 PM
Unitof1 Wrote:what you mean still be an archaeologist and an advisor as well. pretty much impossible.
Possibly if you were museum based and if it was in the remit of that museum to curate what ever archaeology needed curation and you were taking responsibility for the conservation of the archaeological heritage. Thing about advice given to local aurhorities or any other is that it is advice to a politic. Maybe it would make more sense to me if actually the archaeologist was a member of the planning committe but I havent worked out what curum would be necessary. The more I think about this stupid advice standard is the museum aspect of archaeology. We have got away in commercial archaeology with taking very little responsibility for the museuming of archaeology and let the "advisors" go about pretending that they were curators, a museum term, and in control when thay are not. what business is the archive of them, business being the opperative word?
no slothrop - i mean that if you define an archaeologist by hands-on 'physical examination' then you leave out a host of people who quite possibly contribute more to 'study' than your average looteroldladyfleecingshameaboutthethousandyearreicheevaluationspecialist
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