The School of Jack

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Ha Dino starting to sound like a curtator are we not

---so will be able to send people out knowing in advance what to machine off, what to leave and what 'unexpected' archaeology they're looking for

and in many ways this is the very curx of the matter. Barkingdigger cant quite come to say that archaeological deposits are disappearing all the time instead

I do indeed remember that archaeological deposits are constantly under threat, and we only see a tiny fraction.

Constantly under threat is not the same as constantly disappearing for ever. Just go and ask you tame digger driver how many hours a day they have to keep their machine going to make any money and how few of those hours involve an archaeologist.

Thing is that jacks school of archaeology and barking diggers attitude evolved through public service archaeology which sees archaeology as a management resource which no matter that it is diminishing they can manage by the application of a subjective significance. This establishment has curators embedded in it who position themselves as if they are protecting the archaeology. So what we end up with is sites that are not looked at by archaeologists -most planning applications-what to leave -with the justification that what is looked at is somehow done properly because you took 3x black and white, 3x a colour film and 3x a digi picture of a post hole times 600 on some multiphase dodar archive which no other public service body will pay a penny for.- sorry I mean museums. and if they wont pay for it I don't see why they should be given the archaeology or rather why we should waste loads on unsustainable recording practises which have very little to do with archaeological interpretation.

Barking just out of interest just how would you descried the company that you work for?