16th October 2005, 12:26 PM
Troll loves you! Just on a technical point-I don`t have 20 years experience.Not only that, I take my hat off to those of you who have managed to put up with all this crap for so long!
Back to the point....
There are plenty of non-field archaeologists out there carrying MIFA.Sadly, they sometimes escape from the rigours of life and fall back into the field.The archaeology and the field staff then suffer badly.On a legal note, it clearly states in IFA literature that MIFA members are the only ones recommended by them. This is a potential nightmare legally. There`s MIFA and there`s MIFA. I have to say that I`m not particularly interested in any more letters-got enough with what others call me!!!! I will say however, that if and when the IFA make some changes, I would hope that their membership would grow exponentially.Good for them........at the minute, it`s a bizarre state of affairs-if one is a field archaeologist- the accreditation system of the INSTITUTE OF FIELD ARCHAEOLOGISTS denies one Membership! If one is a long-standing field archaeologist, the Institute will only provide a membership level that acknowledges 6 months experience. Interesting, wonder if this is a contrived way of keeping wages down? Anyhoo, enough cynicism for a sunday morning.
Back to the point....
There are plenty of non-field archaeologists out there carrying MIFA.Sadly, they sometimes escape from the rigours of life and fall back into the field.The archaeology and the field staff then suffer badly.On a legal note, it clearly states in IFA literature that MIFA members are the only ones recommended by them. This is a potential nightmare legally. There`s MIFA and there`s MIFA. I have to say that I`m not particularly interested in any more letters-got enough with what others call me!!!! I will say however, that if and when the IFA make some changes, I would hope that their membership would grow exponentially.Good for them........at the minute, it`s a bizarre state of affairs-if one is a field archaeologist- the accreditation system of the INSTITUTE OF FIELD ARCHAEOLOGISTS denies one Membership! If one is a long-standing field archaeologist, the Institute will only provide a membership level that acknowledges 6 months experience. Interesting, wonder if this is a contrived way of keeping wages down? Anyhoo, enough cynicism for a sunday morning.