6th April 2014, 09:52 AM
archaeologyexile Wrote:No.....the vast majority is fulfilling a planning condition and the majority of that has negative results!The planning condition is the reason, not the process. And even a negative result is a conclusion to systematic archaeological investigation. Or research. Sorry for being a little pedantic, but I'm seeing a false dichotomy here, that you either do 'research' archaeology (considered by some the be 'good' archaeology) or you do commercial archaeology (considered by some to be 'bad' archaeology). To my mind, both are archaeology, both are trying to answer questions, both are feeding into the general body of knowledge, and both at least should be done to the best possible standards.
I reserve the right to change my mind. It's called learning.