20th February 2006, 01:08 AM
diggers are not specialists???? i understand that you do not necessarily need to have a degree in archaeology to become an experienced excavator but you do need the ability to understand complex relationships, record stratigraphically, excavate in challenging conditions and much much much more. Skills that can take years to master. I agree that diggers play a valuable role but to leave it at that undermines the job in my opinion and I apologise if saying this causes offence. It is much more than this and should be emphasised accordingly, after all not just anybody could pick up a trowel and tackle complex urban deposits. It may not be in the same category as for example an osteologist or zooarchaeologist but surely it is a specialism in its own right. At the end of the day if it wasn't for the specialist skills and knowledge of the digger there would be nothing for all the other 'specialists' to study.
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)