24th November 2008, 02:00 PM
In the light of the reaction to my originally proposed definitions, perhaps it could be improved as follows:
"An archaeologist is any person who actively <s>contributes to </s> participates in the practice of archaeology."
"Archaeology is the study of the human past through the material remains of human activity, including the conservation and protection of such remains for future investigation."
That would tend to bring in people like curators, museum archaeologists etc. that might otherwise have been left out.
I quite like some of the other definitions that have been proposed, but they all tend to exclude someone that we would all like to include (e.g. amateurs, curators, anyone except excavators).
1man1desk
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"An archaeologist is any person who actively <s>contributes to </s> participates in the practice of archaeology."
"Archaeology is the study of the human past through the material remains of human activity, including the conservation and protection of such remains for future investigation."
That would tend to bring in people like curators, museum archaeologists etc. that might otherwise have been left out.
I quite like some of the other definitions that have been proposed, but they all tend to exclude someone that we would all like to include (e.g. amateurs, curators, anyone except excavators).
1man1desk
to let, fully furnished