Originally posted by Chris D:
Oooooh Dear
Ever so slightly wide of the mark,I'm afraid. University degrees do not really give a very accurate impression of what it's like to work in professional field archaeology at all, I'm afraid.
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Dr Mark Horton, head of education, department of archaeology and anthropology, University of Bristol bristol.ac.uk
There's a popular misconception about archaeology. Obviously there are a lot of people out there digging up fields in the freezing cold, but nowadays the bulk of archaeological work is lab-based. For every day spent on site you spend about four in the lab.
On a university dig maybe, but not on the average commercially funded excavation.
Not a very acccurate article at all, IMO
