14th November 2008, 01:22 PM
I suspect that the majority of archaeology jobs are going to be somehow government funded for the next three to five years but it will take over a year for these to come on line. But donât imagine that there are going to be loads of people clamouring to be on them, there wasnât the last time. Basically if you are into field archaeology and want earn a living out of it its more than likely that its going to be through exploiting government schemes. It might even be the case that you wont be able to get on them unless you are already unemployed! After the last down turn I met a lot of diggers, manpower schemers who ended up digging in Europe âitaly-norway, gov funded jobs, who then turned up on big gov funded archaeology projects here.