13th June 2008, 07:12 PM
Politics is about interactions. The ifa dont exactly go around shouting about The Wonderful Contract, in which I understand the major contribution to human kinds well-being is that it is administered by a designated person named as the CONSULTANT, rather than the Engineer. Perhaps we have discovered why you have such a fondness for it. This web page http://www.museumoflondonarchaeology.org...difyGuest#
reminds us that we live in a world of run away inflation (to pay for consultants no doubt) and we find that our experts on commercial archaeology to the cuddly civil engineers are really part of a government controlled museum-schedule two exempt charity (sorry going off into another dark alley) who love going to parliamentary committees making out that they work in the commercial world
MoLAS is an archaeological contracting unit ? nobody in the unit likes the word ?contracting
(luckily the MPs had John Samuels, a real representative there, so quite quickly ignored the great charity director)
Without getting my library card out it sounds like this contract does not mention copyright, confidentialities, rights to the archaeology or mention who the owners of the archaeology might be. It would appear that any so called archaeologist entering into it can ignore all such luxuries and leave that to the engineers or their gofors in the certain knowledge that both parties will be long gone by the time that any local has twigged that they are getting right royally short changed. Any archaeologist approaching anybodies land with intent should make those owners the employer in the contract rather than with the glorified quantity surveyors that pass for engineers in this country or their lackeys.
reminds us that we live in a world of run away inflation (to pay for consultants no doubt) and we find that our experts on commercial archaeology to the cuddly civil engineers are really part of a government controlled museum-schedule two exempt charity (sorry going off into another dark alley) who love going to parliamentary committees making out that they work in the commercial world
MoLAS is an archaeological contracting unit ? nobody in the unit likes the word ?contracting
(luckily the MPs had John Samuels, a real representative there, so quite quickly ignored the great charity director)
Without getting my library card out it sounds like this contract does not mention copyright, confidentialities, rights to the archaeology or mention who the owners of the archaeology might be. It would appear that any so called archaeologist entering into it can ignore all such luxuries and leave that to the engineers or their gofors in the certain knowledge that both parties will be long gone by the time that any local has twigged that they are getting right royally short changed. Any archaeologist approaching anybodies land with intent should make those owners the employer in the contract rather than with the glorified quantity surveyors that pass for engineers in this country or their lackeys.