31st October 2013, 11:46 PM
kevin wooldridge Wrote:There is a way to do it.We do it in my museum in Norway and that is to do as much of the post-ex work in the field as can be done whilst the excavation is ongoing. Once upon a time it used to be the imperative of UK field supervisors to check records and create the site matrix whilst still in the field. That again is a large chunk of the post-ex work....I think that the separation of budgets into excavation and post-excavation components doesn't help the situation. There is a large overlap which could be exploited here for greater efficiency, but probably doesn't appeal so much to the accountants. But as you say some folks work on a project and never actually see the offices of the company they work for....so suggesting x hours in an office that isn't the same as the site office is not going to work....
From my all-too-brief experience it does happen. But to an infinitely variable degree, because of the huge amount of variables present on each job. Such as: size of the job; number working on the job; complexity of the job; time/financial constraints; the makeup of the workforce; who's running the job... But yes, the separation of excavation and post-ex. is rather silly, isn't it! One is pointless without the other. In fact, they are all part of the whole - neither means anything without the other.