23rd May 2015, 10:27 AM
Wax Wrote:So the answer is probably, but first you need to know what the "standards" are and have the experience to know when and how to apply them whilst doing what the boss tells you. With the knowledge that the only one it matters to is you as a "professional" and in the long run with no one checking (lack of county mounties) its all pretty pointless anyway. Get back to the good old days of machining everything out without an archaeologist within a hundred miles. lack of standards = HERITAGE CRIME :face-crying:
The lack of a control/review of one's work (with the lack of county mounties) can only lead to a fall in standards, though there has always been a 'whack it out no-one will ever know' nature to some archaeological practice.
It's the lack of this control/review together with the growth in viewing archaeology as 'site contamination' which is the killer though.
Will the system of curatorial control ever come back?