24th February 2013, 01:38 PM
Having had to 'ghost write' numerous site reports over the years for other reasons (mostly people moving on etc), and having always been left with the nagging doubt that it would all probably have made some sense if I'd actually seen/dug the site, I can't help thinking that wilfully putting writers in that position really isn't helping to move archaeology forward? The modern rather 'dry' single-context recording systems remove all the 'feel' from the archaeology that you have when you're actually on site and which hardly ever gets written down for posterity :face-thinks: