1st July 2009, 09:37 PM
as for the community archaeology (with no reference to any company, organisation, society, group, project, or individual):
well i guess the issue comes down to whether in good conscience we can affirm a vicar, or archy going over a diggers spoil, retreiving bits of deadies for repatriation, sorry reburial in the same graveyards boundary limits of consectrated ground is to be considered conducting heritage works.
personally i think that if we can't even agree on industry standards as a code of acceptable standards then we won't sit by and stop ourselves from implementing our own methodology of establishing a consistency for data comparision.
the internet alone proves we will still try and do this, from a very great distance, let alone our community back yards.
sorry anarchy archaeology is merely an avante guardism.
we use the term anarchy, but how far do you take it in a globalised multi-cultural society, that can barely accecpt the co-opperative neighbours.
whose guna be on that council, or in that parliment?
who has the qualifications, experience and standing to make it work, because enough people will accept it from them?
nothing formal, or official turns into:
well my predecessor may have been for that, but............... and we have no contextualised comparable data to prove it. so there.
sorry, but it smacks of non-transparent (warped?, who knows) neo-marxist specialist interest groups.
anarchy and community archaeology, in my mind are not compatable other than in the co-ordinated co-operation as a group, but the purpose of the work is to be conducted and transmitted beyond those said limits and thus require an open format standard, for the production of the data for analysis.
we are still not ready for it as we still can't AGREE on a standard, but i do think that as thew new heritage bill is brought into play, we will get a feel for us to freeze on an acceptability of a standard. we are exploring these as we go through a recession, whilst conducting heritage works with and to the best of our abilities and conscience (maybe).
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Mike