10th September 2004, 02:56 PM
Whatever you start off talking about, you always end up talking about the IFA.
Archaeology is a business, but it is also a rather cosy little world largely run by people who know (like, hate, have shagged) each other, and the IFA is effectively a cartel of unit directors and managers and nothing more than what this insular, introspective profession deserves...
But then again I've been in archaeology long enough to notice that things are changing...they're getting much stranger and more complicated!
I just hope that in twenty or thirty years time we don't look at the 1990's and the present time as some sort of 'golden age' in the way that some people nowadays look at the 70's and 80's. That would be very bad.
I've gone off topic a bit I know, but I'm a bit fraught at the moment.