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ive tendering system it just doesn t allow for these new techniques to be used and the typical commercial dig is starting to look archaic when it should be the state of the art we really shouldn t be doing commercial work as second rate excavations but soon it will be clear to everyone that we ll be doing them as third rate excavations we need a fresh generation of specialists bringing these new methods out into the commercial environment that s only going to happen if there are requirements to do these new analysis imposed upon the commercial sector from outside of it from the regulatory bodies but whenever the archaeological community has looked to the various organisations for leadership the state archaeologists the institutes the associations the government there s never been anyone there tbom a very interesting point made on the commercial excavations noted also are the higher university fees for courses in the uk perhaps hindering specialism s in archaeology you have also started a campaign for sensible archaeology group on facebook could explain why you felt that this was necessary i have noted with amusement a few of the articles you have posted about the often obtuse and confusing use of the english language stuart well that s been running quite a few years now there s a decent little introduction to the group over on past horizons here i think the first thing to point out is that there really isn t any such thing as sensible archaeology it was just a joke just me getting annoyed at some of the way archaeology is written and some of the projects that are undertaken when i put it together i defined a sensible archaeology as one in which the style of writing is only as complicated as is needed to explain and explore the points you want to discuss as one where some of the arguments being made are supported by actual archaeological evidence and one where the topic chosen for study is appropriate for analysis using archaeological methods now think about that for a minute there really isn t a single archaeological project that should be unable to meet those criteria if someone is using excessively complicated language beyond that which is merited by their research why what s wrong with them if an argument isn t based on any archaeological evidence it s just historical fiction which is really a different genre all together if a topic isn t suited for exploration through archaeological methods which are powerful but horribly flawed and limited use one of the more appropriate methods that are available so that s it really it s just a simple little thing that at its heart is about promoting better project design the thing is people read the name of the group or see any of the little bits i ve written about it and some of them just flip out it s actually been really odd at times i ve been called a good few names the intellectual equivalent of a hairy arse was an early favourite and not just annoying politically annoying was a more recent one that to be honest still confuses me why am i politically annoying one prominent academic who i won t name here came to the site to insult us during the early days and instead i really tried to engage with him about his work and at first it was cool because i had been reading his work and really thinking about what he was trying to say but the more i pushed him for straight answers the more evasive he got until he just started lying about things that was just so peculiar it got kind of embarrassing really anyway the group is basically just some people having a bit of a laugh kicking a few ideas around sharing interesting or irritating archaeological news stories a lot of members are in the same sort of position as me that sort of independent academic position or to use the more technical term deluded so we spend a lot of time sharing any freely accessible resources we find because lots of us find it hard to operate when we re locked out of the university library system it s been very useful for me really a lot of ideas i ve kicked around on there have subsequently been included in my work and it s certainly helped me engage a bit more with the theoretical side of archaeology which as a field worker it s kind of easy to just end up detached from i think it s a nice group a bit of communal therapy or something and normally good for the odd giggle i was discussing the point about complex language with joanne bourne a freelance writer i made friends with this summer on the ness of brodgar excavation in orkney well jo said she used to think the same thing that the function of writing is to communicate ideas neatly and efficiently but then she decided that s a bit like saying a coat is used to keep the rain off that s a pretty good way of seeing things but i m still not convinced for the need to smother things in dense impenetrable language obviously we don t all walk around in exact replicas of the same colourless rain deflective garment like in some 70 s parody of communism so we re also using our coats to express all these other things about ourselves about the way we perceive ourselves the way we wish to be perceived our cultural allegiances all sorts of other stuff i guess jo was saying writing is a bit like that so there is the actual archaeological content that needs to be explained and anything beyond the functional needs of the research is expressing other things in the case of too many archaeologists it seems to be a compulsion to really impress upon the reader how marvellously clever the author is i just can t be arsed with that that was one of the points of my article on william burroughs cut up technique that you mentioned before that you can just line up these strings of long complex words and it will sound kind of deep and meaningful even though it s nothing of the sort excavation of one of the late neolithic buildings at the ness of brodgar during the summer of 2013 simply sensational digging tbom and finally what so far has been your most treasured memory of an field excavation or moment in archaeology stuart ah well thanks for asking about that i know in some of the things i write i can come across as utterly negative and really that s a bit unfair the critical pieces seem to generate much more interest than the other stuff i do the stuff on prehistoric settlements or transhumance or whatever if anyone has ever seen me lecturing they ll know how much i enjoy myself sometimes that humour comes through in the written stuff but writing funny archaeology is a hard trick to pull off although there are all these really serious topics and clearly i m none too happy about where archaeologists are financially or in terms of job security and career progression i ve had a really great time being an archaeologist really my whole adult life has revolved around it and it s pretty much a 24 7 thing for me so rather than just pick one moment here s a quick run through of some of the highs by way of redressing the balance a little getting an email from some guy in ireland offering me my first paid job doing that first contract in ireland and discovering that something as ludicrous as the digging scene existed in the real world not just in the pages of an old beat novel getting my first promotion excavating the bronze age village at corrstown portrush having my kid adam seeing my first article being run in current archaeology meeting steve linnane giving my first lecture at ipmag 4 in derry meeting the whole clerks bar crew in drogheda passing my license interview and getting to run my own excavations finally seeing the corrstown volume published after all the hard work vicky ginn and i put in to get that done working on the m3 motorway where we really pushed the limits of what can be done in a commercial setting something i was incredibly proud to see martin carver acknowledge in his recent book on pre development archaeology getting the job running the field school on achill island excavating the slievemore roundhouses and having such a laugh with the students meeting my wife christina moving to belderrig and getting to work on the céide fields material with seamus caulfield the whole facebook archaeology scene kicking off and out of the blue becoming involved with so many interesting and amusing archaeologists meeting bob chapple and then finding he would run with pretty much anything i sent to him no matter how off kilter having a paper run in my favourite super serious journal pps seeing the sites on shetland and orkney and getting to work on the ness of brodgar excavation and the adventures continue this summer i was invited to write a book for a new publisher and given a very open remit so i m working on that almost round the clock and i m loving where that s heading it s called archaeological detritus experiments discussions and unprovoked attacks and is definitely a bit different so who knows how it will be received just the other night i was driving back to where i m staying on shetland through this horrible storm and all of a sudden the rain stopped the clouds parted and there were the northern lights in all their glory simply magnificent how many other jobs would provide such a roller coaster through all of these highs and lows tbom indeed thank you very much stuart for taking part select bibliography ginn v rathbone s eds 2012 corrstown a coastal community excavations of a bronze age village in northern ireland oxford oxbow books rathbone s 2010 sensible archaeology past horizons website 23 10 10 rathbone s 2010 booley houses hafods and sheilings a comparative study of transhumant settlesments in and around the northern basin of the irish sea in horning a brannon n eds 2010 ireland and britain in the atlantic world irish post medieval archaeology group proceedings 2 dublin wordwell rathbone s 2011 dig draw and digitise guard houses of county mayo past horizons 23 04 11 rathbone s 2011 the slievemore roundhouses archaeology ireland 25 1 31 35 rathbone s 2012 deer s meadow hut group c ulster journal of archaeology 69 150 154 rathbone s 2013 a considerations of villages in neolithic and bronze age britain and ireland proceedings of the prehistoric society 79 1 22 rathbone s 2013 optical stimulated luminescence dating of problem sites on the m3 motorway in kelly b roycroft n stanley m eds 2013 futures pasts nra monograph 10 dublin wordwell rathbone s 2013 the village people an early history of neighbourly disputes past horizons 01 08 13 tags british archaeology field archaeology guest post interview irish archaeology stuart rathbone comments 4 comments categories academia archaeological legislation archaeology bajr british archaeology excavation field archaeology guest blog entries heritage heritage cuts historical writing ifa irish archaeology prehistory research stuart rathbone tv uk archaeology william burroughs links of interest 5 nov a quick post whilst i prepare the next entry there are some pretty good blogs out there that focus on bioarchaeology and mortuary archaeology that have started up within the past few months or so so i d thought i d highlight a few here bone broke ran by bioarchaeology phd student jess beck has some awesome posts on identifying and siding bone fragments it also has a great vein of humor running through the blog as well as being wonderfully informative and knowledgeable on human osteology and anatomy cakes and ceramics a brand new blog ran by loretta kilroe details the adventures of a post masters pre phd egyptologist living in london with a research focus on ancient ceramics and excavation experience at the post new kingdom site of amara west sudan under her belt you can expect some interesting upcoming posts from this blog all things aafs archaeology anthropology and forensic sciences ran by rosemary helen has some excellent posts split into useful subjects the quick tips series is particularly useful for learning about how to age a human skeleton and identify fracture types expect it to be updated with various topics as the site grows lawn chair anthropology by the biological anthropology assistant professor zachary cofran is an excellent site for updates on bio anth evolution and palaeontology in particular it is great to see cofran discuss his own research in human evolution offer his statistical code for free and regularly highlight free databases it is not new site by any means having previously been hosted on the blogger format for a number of years but it is new to the wordpress format over at spencer carter s blog at microburin he has a great post up which skillfully dissects the recent one day conference held in london on archaeology pay and training the conference held by prospect and the diggers forum part of the ifa discussed issues relating to pay and performance the chartership of archaeology minimum benchmarks for pay and just where archaeology sits as a skilled profession in the uk amongst many other topics of note it is well worth reading spence s blog entry here and my next post but one will discuss some of these issues from a field archaeologist s view point in the latest interview guest entry in the mean time enjoy these blog links above many more can also be found in the blog roll on the bottom left of this site so get digging tags blog links blogs comments 2 comments categories bioarchaeology blogs bone basics education education outreach egyptian archaeology egyptology human osteology ifa jobs in archaeology microburin updates archaeological unemployment 16 nov unemployment is doubtless a thing that many archaeologists will experience during their careers this is especially the case for archaeologists hired for temporary fieldwork where contracts can run out and expire or where work can become lean during certain periods of the year or during economic instability there are factors outside of your control that can either work in your favour or work against you these include amongst others the current economic climate your work experience and previous employment your educational record where you live if in britain you are cscs card holder and if you can drive archaeology as a whole is generally a very well educated sector with many people having at least an undergraduate degree to their name if not a masters however it is often said that once you have entered the fray and became a paid archaeologist it is much easier to gain employment once again at the same or other archaeological units generalisations aside the past two and a half months have led me in a fruitless search to gain employment and i have recently signed onto job seekers allowance a financial safety net for those searching for work in the uk i was somewhat shocked and impressed that i was able to choose archaeology as a main option on my job seekers agreement form after hearing many horror stories from friends although i hold out hope for carving out a career in the archaeology heritage sector i realise that now is a particularly tough time 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