14th July 2014, 09:23 AM
Barking
To get to this nirvana go anywhere excavate any site field archaeologists might need to withhold their records and archives and somebody (and this might be the developer seeing this as a way to get their money back from the state) might need to take the authorising authorities to some court to get some legal precedent and point out that the authorising authorities insisted that the developer undertook archaeology for the development permission, that the authorising authorities are inplicit polluters (they must have a get out card for that) and that there are numerous international agreements that require archaeology to be done and how archaeology is done is that it ends up being "owned" in an archive that you might like to call a museum store. I don't know where the curators should get thier budget from for HERs and museums but I would suggest that they get them increased.
I don't understand economics but I imagine that museum pocurment should be considered as a contribution to gross domestic product where as in the current model archives are given no value presumably because they have been donated. The above model would also have a profound affect on the granting of permissions and I imagine an increase in pre application evaluation. Hopefully it would end go anywhere watching briefs being undertaken without archaeologists insisting on prior evaluation.
Quote: So "society" pays for post-ex, archiving, and publication? Not likely, but then again I'd vote for a system where ALL the archaeology was done by the State, with developers made to stand aside and wait until we had sterilised their site to our satisfaction, and then they pay a levy (say 5% of total development cost?) towards a central pot that supports all the work of this State department around the country... Not likely...universities got to charge their students tuition. By "our" do you mean go anywhere do any excavation field archaeologist? I would suggest that the developer Still pays for the post ex. What I am suggesting is that the "curators" buy any archaeology they want for their archives/museum, If they dont want it, no archive no publication. The price is minimally what the curators forced the developer to pay plus what ever they might want us to do to embellish the archive plus any extra value that could be considered for the significance of the "find".
To get to this nirvana go anywhere excavate any site field archaeologists might need to withhold their records and archives and somebody (and this might be the developer seeing this as a way to get their money back from the state) might need to take the authorising authorities to some court to get some legal precedent and point out that the authorising authorities insisted that the developer undertook archaeology for the development permission, that the authorising authorities are inplicit polluters (they must have a get out card for that) and that there are numerous international agreements that require archaeology to be done and how archaeology is done is that it ends up being "owned" in an archive that you might like to call a museum store. I don't know where the curators should get thier budget from for HERs and museums but I would suggest that they get them increased.
I don't understand economics but I imagine that museum pocurment should be considered as a contribution to gross domestic product where as in the current model archives are given no value presumably because they have been donated. The above model would also have a profound affect on the granting of permissions and I imagine an increase in pre application evaluation. Hopefully it would end go anywhere watching briefs being undertaken without archaeologists insisting on prior evaluation.
.....nature was dead and the past does not exist