3rd September 2012, 09:48 PM
I think a case could be made for not needing a degree to dig- indeed, lots of people came into archaeology via things like the Manpower Services Commission etc in the past and have made great diggers. The problem comes though if they want to move out of being purely an excavator- doing a decent DBA, doing post-ex, writing project designs needs (or certainly ought to need) a decent level of archaeological background knowledge. Of course, this doesn't necessarily equate to a university degree- but it is probably the best way to get a decent grounding, particularly as the whole world of evening classes etc is more or less dying a death...
The idea of some kind of advanced training dig is a nice one, but I'm still not sure it would work financially- I'll have a ponder about how it might work. One of the problems is that its quite hard to replicate the real conditions of a commercial dig in a training context- would people pay to machine watch in the rain for three days?
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The idea of some kind of advanced training dig is a nice one, but I'm still not sure it would work financially- I'll have a ponder about how it might work. One of the problems is that its quite hard to replicate the real conditions of a commercial dig in a training context- would people pay to machine watch in the rain for three days?
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