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ordpress com address to a com one as advised the weekly figures for weekly views clearly shows the impact of upgrading the site from march 2019 and how suppressed the views have been since then the latest full month is for december 2020 with a total of 2 816 views and 1 969 visitors by comparison the highest blue bar on the left represents october 2018 with 25 057 views and a lower number of visitors in darker blue the pattern continues today since changing it back but should change with regular blogging click to enlarge the image i took a few looks over the initial months following the change in blog address and saw no obvious reason as to why the sustained drop in views visitors should be happening and i contacted the company despite going on to contact wordpress a number of times regarding the sustained drop and being reassured it would recover within a few weeks each time i contacted them and that gap lengthening each time i asked i never quite received a clear answer as to why my site was receiving substantially less views this frustrated me and after the eighth attempt at explaining the drop and trying to elicit a clear answer i stopped as it was clear no answer would be forthcoming of course the income from the ads monetisation was non existent and i never met the bar set to have any money ever transferred you have to earn 100 before any money is transferred i am was currently at less than 10 of that after a number of months i turned off the ads from the site in minor disgust at both the adverts themselves and the pitiful sum raised and which i couldn t access anyway i hate to admit it but over the past year and a half i have become less enamoured of logging onto the site as i became demotivated from seeing that the views had dropped by up to 80 of previous years ultimately i largely stopped producing posts as other issues became more important in my life and the world fundamentally changed with the advent of covid 19 an evergreen favourite cartoon the perils of a blog as a time sink and the clash of real life on a side note i highly recommend helping to crowdfund mr lovenstein s new book image source mr lovenstein however there is a plus side to this i think it reinforced in my own mind the reasons for starting the blog in the first place it wasn t as a place to earn money though frankly that would be quite nice it isn t essential thankfully and really i get out of it what i put into the site itself thinking long term i would rather this site remained accessible and readable rather than it disappear following a missed payment for a com address as such i recently changed my blog address back to thesebonesofmine wordpress com and hopefully it should stay that way as i am not renewing the upgraded package granted this has been a bit of a boring entry but i thought it was best to let readers know that i am still active and that i still will be producing posts for this site at some point in the very near future i m still passionate about human osteology and the intricate details kept within our skeletal system and the value of archaeology as humanity s combined story in fact there are over 12 draft blogging entries in varying states of readiness but as an old joke goes i could never quite match how productive one robert m chapple is despite his protestations to the opposite so if you need an archaeology fix before these bones of mine s next update why not head over to robert s site and discover a great archaeological blogger tags blog update blogging housekeeping human osteology humour monetisation comments 5 comments categories blog stats blog update blogging digital culture digital media education education outreach housekeeping monetisation mr lovenstein personal reflection robert m chapple these bones of mine stats day of archaeology 2015 long read a chat on blogging with robert m chapple 26 jul this is a late entry for the 2015 day of archaeology festival which was held on the 24th of july you can read some cracking entries here and also read all about the purpose of the event as well for the day of archaeology 2014 i put together a post detailing views from a range of my friends who are involved with archaeology at all sorts of different levels students researchers commercial voluntary academic etc and this post can be read here this year i decided to do something a little bit different and a little bit more in depth to helpfully discuss and highlight different views points on both a archaeology as a commercial sector to work or volunteer in and b the experience of blogging about archaeology so i ve roped in robert m chapple an archaeological friend based in belfast northern ireland for a web based discussion happy readings and i hope you too have had a good day of archaeology 2015 these bones of mine tbom hello robert thank you for joining me here today to talk about all the great things that archaeology is and can be we are here to talk about the day of archaeology a day every year set aside for archaeologists to talk about what they normally get up to on an average day to celebrate the diverse topic archaeology is firstly would you like to introduce yourself for the readers of these bones of mine robert m chapple rmc hi there where to start i was born in england grew up in the west of ireland i hold ba and ma degrees in archaeology from the national university of ireland galway i moved to belfast in northern ireland for one year in 1997 and i m still here i worked in commercial field archaeology for about 20 years most of it in northern ireland and the border counties i left the profession in 2011 and have since retrained in it but i remain active and connected to that world through blogging and my ongoing research interests what is your background and how did you get into archaeology a digital conversation david mennear l of these bones of mine and robert m chapple r swapping thoughts over the web for the record i d like to say that i have now shaved and i had bed hair when i took this photograph image credit robert m chapple tbom ah so you have always had a foot in the commercial sector in ireland then well as the youngest in the family i always remember holidays or day visits to historic or prehistoric places of interest whether they were buildings or landscapes my dad has a bit of a background in the museum sector so they always figured quite highly on our list of places to visit as a family but he and my mam are also interested in the countryside more generally as well history of how it was used etc i first got into archaeology on a school work placement where i ended up washing the bones of animal remains from a medieval excavation i loved history at school specifically the history of medicine module that i studied then focused on history at college it wasn t until university where i studied a ba in history archaeology at hull that i became fascinated by the mixing of the humanities and sciences and how much they could tell us about past populations i decided to pursue a msc at the university of sheffield where i studied human osteology as although i love prehistory i love the fact that with human osteology you can study human remains and activity in a variety of contexts how did you find the commercial sector rmc your description of your early exposure to archaeology brings back so many memories of my own my parents were very keen on improving activities and pastimes so it wasn t unusual to find ourselves on a day out to some form of ruin or historical site as a young child i clearly remember going on a rather mad cap tour organised by the galway archaeological and historical society led by the later prof etienne rynne he brought us across a damp field to show us an example of a particularly poorly understood site type very few of which had been excavated at that point it was a burnt mound or fulacht fia at that time so few had been excavated it was still valid to talk about them as being an iron age phenomena since then largely as a result of the celtic tiger development boom they ve become the most commonly investigated site type in ireland while their use spans a wide time frame they re now understood as being a largely bronze age type etienne spoke with wild enthusiasm and managed to inject much interest into what can be seen as a relatively uninspiring site type on the same trip he dragged a busload of us across several damp fields to look for a ring barrow he had once excavated but now appeared to have vanished he conducted a spirited lecture on the approximate spot where he thought the site had lain pointing to spots on the bare earth and saying the cremated bone would have been about there etc looking back i feel that if i could be convinced to look at a blank patch of ground and imagine how a burial was once laid out the archaeology bug had already bitten pretty deep the other big influence on my early interest in archaeology was volume two of children s britannica my improving parents had decided around the time i was born to subscribe to an encyclopedia by the time they d signed up they d also decided to move to the west of ireland and britannica refused to spend the extra on postage to this day we only have the first two volumes but in the second one aran to bee there s the entry for archaeology and as a child it absolutely fascinated me in particular there s a drawing of an archaeologist photographing a vertical section that gives a clear explanation about stratigraphy and relative dating apparently as a rather precocious kid i used to dig this out and annoy relatives and visitors with my explanations as to how cool and important it was some things don t change but i do think that the signs were there from an early age that archaeology would become a significant part of my adult life i find that i m rather more keen to discuss other things than some aspects of commercial archaeology i ve been out of that world for over three years now and i still have so much residual anger and bitterness that i find it difficult to be reasonable on the topic i will say that unlike many people my entry into that world was relatively slow after university i had done one university research excavation in 1989 and after that i d drifted into various field survey programmes and related stuff before going back to study for a masters there were occasional excavations along the way but nothing significant until i got a job on the tail end of the lisheen mine excavations in co tipperary in 1998 up until then i d found the atmosphere on many sites to be relatively stifling with all minor increments in experience and ability very closely guarded the reasoning was simple if i teach you to do x that s a skill you ll have the next time we both go for the same job and nobody wanted or needed the competition by the time i arrived at lisheen times had moved on and the field of commercial archaeology was starting to blossom here there was a huge generosity to teach and impart knowledge based on the simple need to have as many skilled people available as possible having not been involved in regular excavations for so long i was something of an anachronism but i loved the experience and it ignited my passion for excavation the joy of being the first person in however many years to look at an artefact and know what it was for and how it was made or the moment of realisation that this set of post holes represents a structure these moments became sustaining supports throughout much of my later career i often think that had the financial crisis not occurred i d probably still be in commercial archaeology i loved the work i adored finding stuff and was i was really committed to getting stuff published it was where i saw myself for the rest of my days as abraham lincoln said and then the war came the global financial meltdown from 2008 onward had a huge effect on the commercial sector the company i was with at the time just started shedding jobs back to only retaining the core staff they went from employing over 30 or 40 people down to less than 10 almost overnight we took pay cut after pay cut and i took a drop in position with a further pay cut all to keep the company afloat and keep ourselves in the job we adored we went to rolling layoffs sometimes for two or three weeks at a go i frequently didn t know on a friday if i had work to go to on the following monday all of these things i endured if not particularly cheerfully then for the love of having a job in the field i loved what snapped for me was the quality i was used to trying to do a quality job under tough conditions usually uncaring developers and inclement weather but what i saw during the recession was company management who called themselves archaeologists deliberately encouraging us to do poor quality work they d sold their souls to the few developers who were left and felt that the only way of remaining in business was to prostrate themselves further and kowtow to anyone with the money to pay them if that meant abandoning much of the standards that were considered basic and minimal too bad by that point we were at best merely relatively well educated dirt shovellers i saw less and less of what would be considered actual archaeological practice on sites something had to give and that was me like i say i m pretty bitter about how it all worked out in the end perhaps i shouldn t be though i ve regained much of the stuff that i actually loved about archaeology the getting out and seeing sites reading the books and writing stuff for magazines and my blog not being dependent on archaeology as the day job has allowed me to say and do stuff that i couldn t have imagined if i was still in the northern irish commercial sector one thing i wanted to circle round to with you is the influence of your parents you say that your dad was involved in the museum sector so he must have had some knowledge of the precarious nature of a career in archaeology did he try to dissuade you in any way and go for something safer and more conventional tbom the archaeology unit which he often had contact with was and still is a unit attached to the local council so the experience that he d had didn t really relate as such to the purely commercial world of the field archaeologist and the trials and tribulations that they endure he and the family really had always been aware of how precarious the heritage and archaeological sectors are in general what with often being one of the first areas for government and council cuts generally since the recession but everyone knew each other and my town hartlepool was in a blossoming period of the extension of the heritage sector more generally we have the fantastic maritime experience museum complex helped built partly with the funds for regeneration and dedicated plaques around town indicating the importance of the area during the industrial and medieval periods as a child i often remember visiting the truly awe inspiring 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