1st July 2014, 08:09 AM
Quote:It might be interesting to know though...Not sure where to start. the more pre application the archaeologist gets involved or when on site to post ex. A lot depends if you want to take an adversarial rather than an inquisitorial view of commercial archaeology. If somebody owns a schedualed monument site and selects you out of the phone book and asks you to prepare a heritage statement with a view to developing the site, if you take on the request are you not suggesting to the developer that they have a chance. Like wise any archaeologists preparing eias arent they being selected by the developer because the particular archaeologists are seen to be successful at delivering. Now I use the term archaeologist with a backsight on the threadS congratulations UCL ASE and the rise of the trainee. The former, uses the term archaeologist, at last-very big hurrah, for the digger position and the latter questions what competencies they should have. I don't want to harp on the Valetta convention but isn't an archaeologist a licence to remove archaeology from a site? Their actions are manifest approval. Seems to me that if you can get an archaeologist on site, so long as it is not designated, before application , no other archaeologist can object on grounds of damage to archaeology.
what job title You digging under?
.....nature was dead and the past does not exist