16th July 2014, 01:12 PM
kevin wooldridge Wrote: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.....
Yep, but first a cross-disciple team of funding, publicity and marketing experts and 'fixers' and facilitators to publicise the potential of archaeological data in other fields of study and the commercial and buisness worlds, to contact members of other fields/buisnesses, form cross-discipline co-op groups, secure funding, publicise the results..etc.
Like NERC do for climatology, ecology and occasionally archaeology.