CBA Community Archaeology Report

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Field workers are trying to create a professional career out of the field. To do this it is believed that the field workers have to have principles codes and standards which add value to their product. Every time a vouleentter is brought on to a “site” or who mimics what can be construed to be an archaeological activity, who is not a trainee, these principles codes and standards are manifestly shown to be immaterial.

[SIZE=3]“We need public support, because it is their heritage after all!”
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no it is not, do not hid behind the word heritage. You will find that archaeology exists on land which will have an ownership. This ownership is lawful. When anybody is undertaking archaeology this ownership should be recognised and deferred to. All commercial archaeology is based on landownership and the rights of landowners to undertake development on land over which they have control.

[SIZE=3]That is why the IfA needed to change its name so as to include all archaeologists and not just field workers.
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What you are saying is that people who wished to be associated with archaeology thought that they were being clever when they removed the word field from the ifa trade name knowing full well that the codes were originally created around the concept of field archaeology which is what they still desperately want to be associated with to basically to give themselves authority whether it is as managers of field workers or people possibly like yourself working in the education, tourist, social service industries. They rely on the confusion which you are perpetuating that some how you can be an archaeologist by affiliation to field work when you do not earn your money from your field skills in the field but earn your living from what will probably be shown to be some other professional association. I don’t know where you get your funding from but “community” so called archaeology tends to be grant funded with a myriad of justifications and obscure claims for its value.

I do not mean to denigrate so called community archaeology. I think the key to it is that any vouleenteer is actually a trainee. As such before undertaking any archaeological activity the individual should apply for trainee affiliation to the field workers archaeological association and pay a fee before undertaking any training and that the training should have principles codes and rules and the trainee should be certified at cost at various stages of their exploitation.

All trainee Please make direct monthly debit ?35 to
Paddle Maker and field archaeologist numberone chief association
Madugri Creek
Nigeria

One other point the central funding for the CBA should be withdrawn.