22nd July 2013, 06:48 PM
barking I think that you overlook the fact that "archaeology" disappears all the time. We are in an inbetween Common agricultural policy time which farmers use to subsoil just about every field they have, another fifty per cent of what we don't know disappears. Pour on some global warming, erosion, entropy. Its not caused by shoddy recording. If we get some thing out from the field on the back of a piece of paper that's a plus and that's where we should set the standard. We should always try our best is a lot of up its self tosh. I really don't care if you trash a site or how badly you record it. I think looking by an archaeologists is the most important thing in being a archaeologist-and you have no right to say that somebody is not an archaeologist. Recording something comes a second best. You make it sound like if you don't agree to a wsi you should not be allowed out. I think that a good test of an archaeologist is them not recording something.
Anyway just how much does a museum pay you for your wonderful record? I don't expect them to pay me anything and produce accordingly.
Quote: I'd rather see the whole archaeological profession scrapped than see it ruined by "done shoddy and cheap" practices that milk off the cash from little old ladies while producing rubbish. Of course, I'm sure you meant that you only cut such corners in extremis...what profession. As I understand it a professional earns their money by application of their knowledge. You make out that is by application of some fail safe recording methodology which kev can do using a very expensive machine to do because it possibly uses terms and notations that some other archaeologists have used probably recording something on the back of an envalope.
Anyway just how much does a museum pay you for your wonderful record? I don't expect them to pay me anything and produce accordingly.
Reason: your past is my past