23rd June 2013, 08:12 PM
(This post was last modified: 23rd June 2013, 08:17 PM by kevin wooldridge.)
Doug Wrote:....lots of people are in the IfA. Looking at the recent count of archaeologists 4200-4900 and the recent count of IfA membership (3300 last I heard) they probably do represent half or more of professional archaeologists(however one defines that). It gets a little dicey when one counts student members and affiliates in those numbers. Are they really students or interested or just people who want the benefits (except voting) but don't want to personally pay 200+.
As of last week there were 3062 IfA members of whom 900 were student/affiliates.....we have had this discussion before and Dinosaur is insistent that the IfA does not represent the majority of archaeologists. I think Dinosaur should be allowed that privilege.......its an irrelevance. As the IfA point out 75% of voting archaeologists need to approve the Charter petition for it to go ahead. I will be voting in that ballot, Dinosaur won't......
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