Piggott, S. (1970). British archaeology and the enemy. Council for British Archaeology Annual Report 20. Vol 20, pp. 74-85.
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British archaeology and the enemy | |
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Issue The name of the volume or issue |
Council for British Archaeology Annual Report 20 | |
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Council for British Archaeology Annual Report | |
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20 | |
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74 - 85 | |
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The Presidential Address to the CBA examines that body's role as "secretaries, interpreters and preservers of the memorials of our ancestors". The Enemy that we must fight works within as well as without; he sees archaeology as a curiosity or at best a harmless amusement, rather than a demanding scholarly discipline. We ourselves accept incompetence too often, and we squander our limited resources in too many digs and too many local journals, when strong regional policies and cooperation would achieve infinitely more. Non-excavational fieldwork is desperately necessary, cheap and easy to organise, and destroys no evidence. New and vigorous methods are needed to combat public apathy and antipathy, and the developers cupidity which, as the Barford Conference appallingly demonstrated, is destroying sites at an ever-increasing rate. Trivialisation of our discipline comes not only from the mass media and the lunatic fringe but from some of the very museums whose primary obligation should be to scholarship, and from the Inspectorate of Tidy Ruins. We need a new State Archaeological Service, designed by archaeologists, responsive to changing needs, and answerable not to politicians but to scholarship. See also abstract 71/924. | |
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1970 | |
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