15th July 2014, 05:06 PM
One of the problems is that there is so little money invested in research and synthesis of UK archaeological data. I can think of a number of potential projects that would demonstrate the 'added value' of archaeological data particularly with regard to environmental matters, climate change, sea level changes, previous exploitation of land, industrial pollution etc etc let alone its intrinsic cultural value.....We need a team of centrally funded 'super synthesisers' to develop and see through projects based on the mass of archaeological data created over the past 40 years.....
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