17th November 2005, 02:14 PM
Quote:quote: I was wondering if people might be able to enlighten me on some key questions i have.
1. Unions - a purely archaeological union was founded in the 1980s. It was called 'ACT - Archaeologists Communicate Transform'. It faded away, partly because of apathy and partly because the name was too embarrassing.
2. Strikes - I have known at least one strike in archaeology. It did'nt work.
3. MPs - I think nowadays you would get a better result from the Lib Dems than Labour.
4. Archaeology in the 1970s-90s used to be worse paid, at least for site workers, than it is now.
5. Budgets - the scope of archaeological investigation on a development site is set by the curator, who can insist on very onerous requirements if the importance of the archaeology justifies it. The size of budget is then set by the archaeological units in their competitive tender. Developers can only really influence budget by selection of the cheapest tender or by redesigning the scheme to avoid the archaeology. I know of schemes where over ?5million has been spent on archaeology, and one I was involved in where the scheme was redesigned after the archaeology was priced at ?7million.
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