25th May 2005, 06:11 PM
As a general rule, most field types don`t get to see the written material issued to adults. As another and equally depressing rule, a good quantity of supervisors and above have no idea either. Field archaeologists, on the whole, are simply seen as labourers with a degree. I have only worked for a handful of organisations where I have felt pro-actively embedded in the process, tiz why I am still wiv em.....
Another thing-Sorry guys, not reading things during my break because staff could`nt be bothered to brief their workers during their own time. Briefings should be an endemic and integral component to any professional project. Teams excavating without briefings and, on a site where communication is selective are simply cutting holes.I would invite curators to communicate with the diggers, best source on the realities. The moment a document is agreed and finalised, a compromise is reached. How that document relates to the inevitable further compromises on sites restricted by, sometimes child-like assessments of time budgets- diggers would be at an advantage if they understood the previously agreed mitigation.If staff and curators began engaging with the diggers (we are archaeologists-your reports won`t intimidate us-honest) on a professional level and, as standard practise, who knows, another ten (IFA)years and we might start looking professional....
Another thing-Sorry guys, not reading things during my break because staff could`nt be bothered to brief their workers during their own time. Briefings should be an endemic and integral component to any professional project. Teams excavating without briefings and, on a site where communication is selective are simply cutting holes.I would invite curators to communicate with the diggers, best source on the realities. The moment a document is agreed and finalised, a compromise is reached. How that document relates to the inevitable further compromises on sites restricted by, sometimes child-like assessments of time budgets- diggers would be at an advantage if they understood the previously agreed mitigation.If staff and curators began engaging with the diggers (we are archaeologists-your reports won`t intimidate us-honest) on a professional level and, as standard practise, who knows, another ten (IFA)years and we might start looking professional....