22nd July 2010, 10:41 PM
complaining loudly about the lack of professional standards whilst telling the developer that they can "do the job cheaper than anybody else".
. A site visit involves trying to elicit responses from barley coherent mumbling dirty people who will not look you in the eye and point at invisible features they have yet to excavate and tell you "there's loads of re-cuts man" while any sane person sees a ditch with more than one fill.
good one
i expect my co-workers and assistants to conform to high standards of observation, technical excellence and percetive inquiry - not all fail...
i expect my excavtion crew not only to work hard, but to think hard...and i will 'prod' them if not.......i expect similar standards from curators
i am fine for a curator, or even a site manager to have limits in thier technical knowledge of excavation and 'coal-face' archaeological interpretation - so long as they know enough to ask the right questions and probe the data they are presented with....in short to make critical use of the technical expertise of others...
i feel the best curators are under resourced and unable to probe as much as they would/should...the futue does not look too good either
commercial archaeologists might think they can do without strong publicly funded curators (though Units' idea is interesting)...however as Members of the Public with an Interest in Archaeology it could not be more obvious that strong non-commercial regulation is vital for the long term protection of the national heritage
. A site visit involves trying to elicit responses from barley coherent mumbling dirty people who will not look you in the eye and point at invisible features they have yet to excavate and tell you "there's loads of re-cuts man" while any sane person sees a ditch with more than one fill.
good one
i expect my co-workers and assistants to conform to high standards of observation, technical excellence and percetive inquiry - not all fail...
i expect my excavtion crew not only to work hard, but to think hard...and i will 'prod' them if not.......i expect similar standards from curators
i am fine for a curator, or even a site manager to have limits in thier technical knowledge of excavation and 'coal-face' archaeological interpretation - so long as they know enough to ask the right questions and probe the data they are presented with....in short to make critical use of the technical expertise of others...
i feel the best curators are under resourced and unable to probe as much as they would/should...the futue does not look too good either
commercial archaeologists might think they can do without strong publicly funded curators (though Units' idea is interesting)...however as Members of the Public with an Interest in Archaeology it could not be more obvious that strong non-commercial regulation is vital for the long term protection of the national heritage