24th July 2011, 06:33 PM
P Prentice Wrote:another big pile of dinosaur shite
before ppg 16 the amount of work undertaken was trivial compared to the last 20 years and most of it has never been published. most of the fieldwork was done by a very few poorly paid archaeologists or well-paid academics assisted either by volunteers, students, school children or sometimes prisoners on day release.
they were not halcyon days either for diggers or for the archaeology
we shouldn't mistake this smug self agrandisment for anything else from vested interests intent on using this forum to belittle the aspirations of any archaeologists
Well some of us enjoyed it!
Actually an awful lot of stuff from 'the good old days' was published. otherwise you'd have been rather short of stuff to read at Uni! Off the top of my head recent DoE/MSC sites published include the Raunds monographs, Worcester Deansway (although that was part developer-funded to be fair), West Heslerton, Piercebridge, Catterick etc etc, so the stuff's still seeping out at a fairly steady rate, I bet a lower percentage of commercial stuff has been adequately published to a reasonable academic standard, some of the commercial 'publications' I've seen have been bl**dy awful!
BAJR - you're right, those who adapt seem to survive :face-approve: