25th August 2010, 03:42 PM
i agree with gnome king and to a certain respect with optimus. i'm one of the people who has spent 25 years learning my skill and find that at each turn new technology and/or less experience is preferable to a keen eye and accumulated experience. commercially it's cheaper not to have a planner or planning supervisor, for example. it may be cheaper but the mistakes and lack of experience can only really be sorted in the field. oh and what happens when the data logger goes down. as in surveying it seems that now you just need to know how to press the right buttons rather then know how to survey. sites are lost this way and no-one learns anything. surely there has to be a better way. why can't the archaeology and the archaeologist benefit rather than just the developer. at the risk of repeating myself a little we need to sort ourselves out and get the right perspective on how, what and why we do what we do....it's an old story and doesn't seem to get better with the retelling. god it's depressing. pub anyone?