15th February 2014, 03:08 PM
Dinosaur Wrote:I kinda miss the days when most people did archaeology cos finding out new stuff about the past was cool (suspect I'm a bit outdated in still following that approach) - seems these days that an awful lot of people are in it as a forum where they can be managers and boss other people about - IfA just smells of that kind of approach, ignoring how it treats archaeologists, has it ever actually done anything to benefit British archaeology? Seems to me that many local societies and individuals (and, dare I say it, the likes of the CBA) have had a far greater impact
Can't argue with that! Pretty much how it looks to me, too. And yes, that's precisely why I 'do' archaeology (irrespective of what I'm called...) - getting your hands dirty trying to find out what we were doing, what we were like hundreds or thousands of years ago, what's not to love! :face-approve: