Theme:
1. The Material Record: Current Trends and Future Directions
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
Preventive Archaeology in Europe: Context of Exercise, Methods and Working Conditions
Content:
Preventive archaeology or development led archaeology is now practiced throughout Europe in a variety of legal, institutional and field contexts. Although it produces most of the archaeological data in part of Europe, there is still a lack of discussion about the methods and working conditions.
Under monetary and time pressure, preventive archaeology has developed and is still developing, methods to study archaeological sites in a short time while maintaining or even improving the scientific quality of the excavation and post-excavation studies. In some countries, the excavation methods used by preventive archaeology are state-of-the-art and the skills of its experienced archaeologists are in demand. However, it is also a field, halfway between business and science, where workers are subject to not only the law of the market, but also to competition and the vicissitudes of financial crises. Through presentations from different European contexts, this session aims to discuss the context of practice, methods and working conditions of the profession in Europe.
Keywords:
Preventive archaeology, Working condition, development led archaeology, Europe
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Main organiser:
Kai Salas Rossenbach (France) 1
Co-organisers:
Harald Stäuble (Germany) 2
Amala Marx (France) 1
Affiliations:
1. Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives
2. Archaeological Heritage Office of Saxony
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