31st August 2012, 07:13 PM
Quote: in the spirit of constructive dialogue, what is your recipe for effective field training? In an ideal world, how would a course be structured- how would arrange a 3-year course to provide the kind of training you think is necessary? Indeed, what training do you see as most important? What skills do you think a new archaeology graduate should have, and how should they acquire them. I am genuinely interested, you clearly have extensive experience in the commercial field, where do you see the challenges and how can they be addressed?
You will not like the answer on the grounds that this is probably where you came from.
Take archaeology out of the humanities. Dont let the twats in in the first place. Its the humanity twats that are the bread and butter jokes of archaeology. What A levels do you accept for your courses. The closest that I would accept is geography and only then because I would be interested in their interest in physical geology.
After we have got rid of the humanities we can then start pointing out a lot of the archaeology BSc courses are not.
Reason: your past is my past