Archaeology: Hidden treasure - Grey Literature

[trainedchimp]

Can't speak of Wales or Scotland, but as yet, I've never yet found an English HER that charges for 'private', 'academic' or best of all 'bona-fide' research... Nice to know we're valued that highly.

That said, from personal experience, a lot of HERs- about 30-40% of the HERs I contacted were pretty poor at getting back to me (i.e. didn't at all,or only after a couple of reminders). This was a couple of years back, so things may have changed- it seems to depend on the individual HER officer, and as ever, getting a real person rather than a generic office email address helps enormously. That and if it's a specific report, the contractors are usually much more helpful.

[Gef]

Just thought I'd mention there a more up-to-date appraisal of grey literature in this months British Archaeology ('On the Web' section). Worth checking out for those of you who are interested.

[BAJR]

I will have to wait for it to go online...

Does it mention the Open Archive website? http://www.openarchive.co.uk
Or is it about Commercial Grey Lit?

We are definitely interested - as the discussion shows here. :face-approve: So thanks for teh heads up

[Jack]

Rock ... or Dark Ctulu quotes... well got me looking up the quote! we are getting quite deep now

Both, I think?

Some accademics must be aware of the grey litrature, It is mentioned here and there. And my old tutor P. Rowley-Conwy dug up an unpublished site report or too. I'm guessing to some accademics the thought of trailing through loads of actual site reports containing new and scary information about the wonderful archaeology on their doorsteps, just isn't exotic enough for them? I've always sensed a huge chasm between comercial and accademic archaeology, on many levels.

How about this one
'.....My shoes are too tight and I have forgotten how to dance."

[Dinosaur]

Can't find that in 'Rats in the Walls' - any clues?

[BAJR]

Ah... Babylon 5

Londo: Something my father said. He was old, very old at the time. I went into his room, and he was sitting alone in the dark, crying. So I asked him what was wrong, and he said, "My shoes are too tight, but it doesn't matter, because I have forgotten how to dance." I never understood what that meant until now. My shoes are too tight, and I have forgotten how to dance.

love it!

[Jack]

Can't find that in 'Rats in the Walls' - any clues?

Note sure its in any of his books, it may be a poem.....might not even be by Mr Lovecraft.
..Oh, aparently (unconfirmed) its from 'the call of Cthulu'

Ah... Babylon 5

Londo: Something my father said. He was old, very old at the time. I went into his room, and he was sitting alone in the dark, crying. So I asked him what was wrong, and he said, "My shoes are too tight, but it doesn't matter, because I have forgotten how to dance." I never understood what that meant until now. My shoes are too tight, and I have forgotten how to dance.

love it!

Groovy........

'A person needs new experiences, without them something sleeps inside and rarely awakens.............the sleeper must awaken'

[BAJR]

I am certainly having new ones!

[RedEarth]

"you know what I hate most about you... your shoes are too tight"

[diggingthedirt]

I caught this article from a twitter link - and was surprised to see it: Bradley's paper was 2006, so this is hardly hot news. Given that it was written by a staff writer, it was quite well put together (even mentioning INSTAR, the Irish answer to this problem). But it didn't really offer any extra insight or solutions to how we might 'bridge the conceptual divide', so left me struggling to figure out the point.

I also published my take on this as an oppinion piece in CA:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/15049367/Rumsf...rchaeology