21st November 2008, 06:07 PM
I reckon we're both singing from the same hymnsheet, Ox. I'd say that non-physical examination of physical remains (APs, geophysics plots etc) still count as archaeology. As for curators, they are setting up and policing the system through which systematic study can be undertaken, much like the lecturer who abandons his/her formal study and teaching responsibility in order to take on an academic managerial position- fewer days out in the field, more days in budget meetings.
The antiquarian vs archaeologist one is a toughie though, and probably a historical artefact to do with the move to formal academic study and dissemination in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century.
The antiquarian vs archaeologist one is a toughie though, and probably a historical artefact to do with the move to formal academic study and dissemination in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century.