16th July 2014, 08:26 AM
(This post was last modified: 16th July 2014, 08:34 AM by Marc Berger.)
Quote:we have already made the moral compact with our society to publish our findings - we do this by taking on the "destruction" job in the first place! Having agreed to do the archaeology, in my mind it is a mortal sin demanding public crucifixion (inverted!) if we then refuse to provide the archive and report for other researchers. This unfortunately undermines our ability to play chicken with the potential buyers...even thought there might be some archaeological organisations involved in "compact" with society http://www.compactvoice.org.uk/about-us I don't see how it relates to field archaeologists. I can find no compact that I am party to. That includes the codes of the ifa. Without permission from the landowner we have no archaeology. That permission creates ownership creates value.
Quote:our product has intangible value rather than easily-calculated value -how about we start with the easily calculated value. I am often asked particularly on pointless watching briefs what's the most expensive thing that I have found. Well I charge one day in the office for every day in the field. I have experienced on more than a few occasions only finding a few residual sherds over a few days. Now society wanted to find those sherds and I can give them a price based on rates and at the end of the field work I can give you a cost of production which also includes a post ex budget.
Now let us consider the intangible value. Good luck with that, see what you can get, but how about minimally charging for a start the cost of production? And if the polluters don't want it tell society that if they want archaeology that they must pay for it themselves. Now I am working under the model that I am a commercial field archaeologist because we have been kicked out of the Intangible final salaried pension government guarantee deal under which "moral" voluntary occupational therapy archaeology evolved and not the old Intangible gravey train gush gush approach that this condition relies on. http://planreg.towerhamlets.gov.uk/WAM/d...ageCount=1
Now how much would you pay to live there? Lots hay they have a different way of doing things in london
.....nature was dead and the past does not exist