20th July 2011, 05:08 PM
How about a glossy mag financed by the big bad developers in whose names we do commercial archaeology? Ooh whoops there goes the confidentiality clause.
The commercial archaeologists have their hands tied and are gagged by the nature of the commercial world in which they work. One of the many reasons why it is not the place for the amateur.
There will either be developer driven archaeology or development free of archaeology with the occasional amateur rescue dig. That is what I see as the heart of the matter which the public and the media do not understand. Community archaeology is a very separate animal which is being used as a smoke screen.
The commercial archaeologists have their hands tied and are gagged by the nature of the commercial world in which they work. One of the many reasons why it is not the place for the amateur.
There will either be developer driven archaeology or development free of archaeology with the occasional amateur rescue dig. That is what I see as the heart of the matter which the public and the media do not understand. Community archaeology is a very separate animal which is being used as a smoke screen.