Le déclin et la chute de l'archéologie britannique [The decline and fall of British archaeology]

Pages & Document Description:
40 - 42
Author:
'Gildas' (pseudonym), 'Gildas' (pseudonym)
Abstract:
The organization that could be recommended as a model to a French seminar in 1978 is rapidly disappearing under the steady attrition of a government dedicated to the rule of market forces. From the early 1980s informed archaeological opinion has increasingly been set aside, while the historic heritage becomes mainly a source of tourist revenue. The hundred or so archaeological units have suffered abolition or severe cutbacks and the remainder are forced to chase developer funds or indulge in competition for contracts on the undesirable American model. Government training schemes for the unemployed can no longer be directed at archaeological work. Several university departments have closed, others are under threat, and the professors are divided in their proposed solutions. The national research councils too are being starved of funds, with archaeology coming off worst. The CBA is currently under close examination with a possibility of losing some of its funding. (An English translation appears in Brit Archaeol News, 4, 1989, 2-3)
Dataset:
BAA
Classifications:
1A
Source full ref:
'Gildas' (pseudonym) 1988 `Le déclin et la chute de l'archéologie britannique [The decline and fall of British archaeology]' Nouvelles Archéol 31, 1988 40-2 []
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40-2

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