19th September 2012, 09:30 PM
(This post was last modified: 19th September 2012, 10:30 PM by Unitof1.)
Quote:What about those of us who survey? Or if you tend to do more desktop stuff
but you still go out and walk the landscape
but these are field based topics and skills about which reference to professional standards does have relevance particularly including for porposes of tendering for fieldwork which should be cultured within professional field archaeology work. Where does being a curator or director of a unit within an RAO directly have reliance on these standards of definition for the porpose of defining a field archaeological professional? They dont. Those persons would be best advised to have a mba or belong to some civil service fast track how to double speak a regulation or five different local governemt planning policy review white paper ammedamnet consultation oopps there another general election to wait for.
You might consider yourself an archaeologist and this is about getting work and not letting the buggers get away with saying they are doing archaeology when they are not.
prentise- just concentrate on achieving the pension
Reason: your past is my past