9th July 2014, 09:17 AM
Jack you have missed the archaeologist employing another archaeologist bit. What set up are you working in? In the last boom the "archaeology" industry was dominated by charity trust RAOs all working on infrastructure work or sometime also called compulsory purchase work. The heads of those units were normaly on different permanant pay and conditions often related to council public service rates compared to the digger on the ground who due to the temporary nature of the "boom" was expected to put up with all manner of trainee abuses.
To my mind all these abuses were because diggers took no responsibility over ownership of the archaeology. What I would like to see is that the digger owns what they create and is then paid for that archaeology by the eventual owner of the archaeology. It's a rubbish model I know but it is based on my other job which is selling lemonade which is a manufacturing job where you have bought the ingredients and then you have to find the rare customer who might like to buy the product and then you make it for them.
To my mind all these abuses were because diggers took no responsibility over ownership of the archaeology. What I would like to see is that the digger owns what they create and is then paid for that archaeology by the eventual owner of the archaeology. It's a rubbish model I know but it is based on my other job which is selling lemonade which is a manufacturing job where you have bought the ingredients and then you have to find the rare customer who might like to buy the product and then you make it for them.
.....nature was dead and the past does not exist