18th February 2014, 01:03 AM
pdurdin Wrote:The IfA website claims they have 5000 members. http://www.archaeologists.net/membershipservsIt doesn't say that. It says 'the yearbook introduces them to an audience of 5000 other members and specifiers of archaeological work' As an earlier page (Membership) clearly states there are 3000 members of the IfA I am guessing that the remainder of the 5000 is made up by 'specifiers of work'. Whatever they are. I cant find any broken pages on the website. There are pages
restricted to members, for which you may get an error message if not logged in, but that's about it.
As for Mike Ts comment. He may have only have ever met 2 members of the IfA, (one of whom is clearly me) but equally clearly he can't argue with the fact that over 50% of the profession are members of the IfA. Perhaps other trenches in other sites they are brimming full of diggers who are members of the IfA but go out of their way to avoid Mike!! Or perhaps its a mistake to assume that the 'digger' end of our professional spectrum is actually a particularly large number of people.
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