27th August 2012, 10:15 PM
Wax Wrote:Archaeologists are exploited because there are very many who are desperate to work in the profession to the extent of being willing to do it for nothing. How you change that I have no idea.
Clearly the only way to change that would be to restrict the number of persons able to legitimately work as archaeologists. The only ways of achieving that are through either qualification or licensing or some combination of both. Archaeology as a profession has known this for a good while now and whilst there are some steps towards the ambition (IFA Chartering for example), many members of the profession seem bent on the opposite tack by actually 'deskilling' the job (See Chiz Haywoods various articles recently). I have even seen it suggested that any form of qualification is unhealthy for an archaeologist....somehow mixing in academia gives you ideas way above your station or sklills requirement...!!
Archaeologists are exploited because.......well I think we all know the answer to that!!
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