10th September 2009, 01:39 PM
RedEarth Wrote:Do people who carry out bat surveys or assessments of the impact on badgers worry about the divorce between academic and commercial archaeology, the philosophy of branding, or how much public support they have.
probably... I have not asked them. I would guess that a developer would feel the same if told, you can't build there, its got a bat living in that tree.
as I said - saying... oh, they told me to do it does not create a strong idea of why you are doing it...
I also think we are getting confused between public support and public funding.
recently I advised a person who was about to evaluate a sensitive site beside a village... you could do well to communicate with the villagers..
the reply (perhaps in jest) was "fk em... I'll just give them the line about doing a job for the client, nothing to do with me... and if they don't like it... fk em!"
Public support may not be needed in times of plenty but sure helps to make an essentially non-essential product essential - if that makes sense- and public funded work is what I and others do with community archaeology or in local groups (which is very different from commercial archaeology - but a damn good training ground for prospective commercial archaeologists to start, seeing as there is little training in unis and the same in commercial companies )
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Thomas Rainborough 1647
Thomas Rainborough 1647