3rd April 2014, 06:05 PM
problem is PP (my darling), taht i have been working for many years in the field > not only do i see a depressing lack of research quality work, but when do i get to present My Results?
anyway....
you misunderstand academic timescales, timetables and requirments -- + you may be some what out of touch with Researchers, for whome most (not all) comic-mercial reports/field work is minimally tempting (even with barge pole in hand)
Yes, there was an imbalance, (and in many ways still is) whereby very good (non-academic) field archaeolgoist were not given enough respect or value in teaching situations...this is not really the case now, and the pendulum is swinging too far the other way, with some academics fawning over 'Profesionals' who 'know it like it is', when in fact many of them simply know how bullshit clients/curators, fill in risk-assesments, and abuse thier staff to hack-away at site ever faster and faster (sorry, 'efficiently').
It nearly is slave labour anyway...lets not go down the 'intern' route just yet eh?
Instead, lets see some senior academics providing real critiscism (+ve and -Ve) to 'profesional' field archaeology, then lets get it up to 'research' standards, and then maybe we can think about 'interns'.....
anyway....
you misunderstand academic timescales, timetables and requirments -- + you may be some what out of touch with Researchers, for whome most (not all) comic-mercial reports/field work is minimally tempting (even with barge pole in hand)
Yes, there was an imbalance, (and in many ways still is) whereby very good (non-academic) field archaeolgoist were not given enough respect or value in teaching situations...this is not really the case now, and the pendulum is swinging too far the other way, with some academics fawning over 'Profesionals' who 'know it like it is', when in fact many of them simply know how bullshit clients/curators, fill in risk-assesments, and abuse thier staff to hack-away at site ever faster and faster (sorry, 'efficiently').
It nearly is slave labour anyway...lets not go down the 'intern' route just yet eh?
Instead, lets see some senior academics providing real critiscism (+ve and -Ve) to 'profesional' field archaeology, then lets get it up to 'research' standards, and then maybe we can think about 'interns'.....