24th January 2011, 01:11 PM
I maintain that if a Student wants to leave uni as a a freshly graduated archaeologist, then they should be volunteering at every opportunity, and well most of them have cracked the pub side of archaeology and are less focussed on the digging side
Last year i turned up at work to find three or four students from the local uni all excited as they where going to dig on a sweat Iron age site as part of a Cadw project. I was please to see such enthusiasm and the guy running the excavation added an extra trench because of the local and student support. By the end of the week not one student was left on site and two only last the first day. I talked to the guy running the project and he said this was very common and apart from myself 10 years ago they have never had a student which has lasted a whole excavation.
I've talked to some of the same guys in the pub and they are still sure they want to work in the field, but complained of the weather and the hard work, i've tried to explain that this is the job, but as one pointed out to me when he's got his
degree he should be able to move up to an inside job pretty quickly
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Last year i turned up at work to find three or four students from the local uni all excited as they where going to dig on a sweat Iron age site as part of a Cadw project. I was please to see such enthusiasm and the guy running the excavation added an extra trench because of the local and student support. By the end of the week not one student was left on site and two only last the first day. I talked to the guy running the project and he said this was very common and apart from myself 10 years ago they have never had a student which has lasted a whole excavation.
I've talked to some of the same guys in the pub and they are still sure they want to work in the field, but complained of the weather and the hard work, i've tried to explain that this is the job, but as one pointed out to me when he's got his
degree he should be able to move up to an inside job pretty quickly
Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.