7th July 2013, 05:00 PM
P Prentice Wrote:she has a point here. a chartered archaeologist really should be able to determine what is worth doing and what is not. a chartered archaeologist should be able to command prestigeious fees for their expertise. a chartered archaeologist, whether on site or in management should be accountable to their peers - and only their peers.
it is dino's fallacy to suggest that only management want chartered status and they want diggers to be lackies. currently diggers are lackies when they should be chartered. mostly managers want to get paid more than they currently do just like everybody else. if diggers are paid more then management would be also. one of the main reasons diggers are paid so badly is because of the enormous expense of back covering, beaurocracy and administration of pointless report writing and archive deposition. a charterered archaeologist should be able to determine what is worth saying and what is worth keeping.
and where does the ifa fit in this utopia?
there will be no need for the ifa
Actually I don't think PP and myself have particularly differing visions for where commercial archaeology should be going, merely some disputatious niggles in the small print